Big tech's threat to journalism

Cutting off Wikileaks' access to credit card processors. Enlisting the government to help police copyright. Giving their own content more favorable access to their networks. These are just some of the ways technology companies are impeding free speech, Dan Gillmor writes in Columbia Journalism Review. Gillmor also discusses how journalists need to upgrade their technological skills and equipment to protect their sources from government prosecutors or worse.

May 14, 2012

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