Iceland rewrites law to create haven for investigative reporting By Archie Bland Thursday, 17 June 2010 Iceland has passed a sweeping reform of its media laws that supporters say will make the country an international haven for investigative journalism. The new package of legislation was passed unanimously at 4am yesterday in one of the final sessions of the Icelandic parliament, the Althingi, before its summer break. Created with the involvement of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, it increases protection for anonymous sources, creates new protections from so-called “libel tourism” and makes it much harder to censor stories before they are published. “It will be the strongest law of its kind anywhere,” said Birgitta Jonsdottir, MP for The Movement party and member of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, which first made the proposals. “We’re taking the best laws from around the world and putting them into one comprehensive package that will deal with the fact that information doesn’t have borders any more.” Wikileaks has been involved in the drafting of the package of laws alongside Ms Jonsdottir from the beginning of the process more than a year ago. Its founder, Julian Assange, worked from Iceland on the organisation’s release of the incendiary video of an apparently unprovoked American helicopter attack in Iraq that left eighteen people dead, including two journalists. Mr Assange did not respond to requests for comment via email yesterday. But in February, he …
the irony… i was just watching dylan ratigan interview of daniel ellsberg regarding assange.
sounds like a great place to live…Freedom always the best way to live
Iceland becomes the fourth branch of the US government. HA!
Way to Go Iceland :)
Laws to protect the truth? What’s next laws to protect liars… oh yeah, nevermind.
Thank you for serving our country brother Mark.
I am a former miltary member. We were taught that security classifications were to protect the secrets of the military from foreign disclosure. The reality is that this is not true. The insider government from the President down to selected CFR members disclose secrets to foreign governments (Vietnam, China Gate with clinton and many more) AS A POLICY. The Classification system is to keep the truth from civilians that a world government is forming bottom line.
Thanks for the report :))
This news about Iceland is big! Lets hone it will work out.
Also lets hope Julian Assange will stay out from the hands of the people who he has pissed off (but not only him…). & bdw wikileaks does not post any secrets randomly, they have a lot of info that would directly harm many but they do not leak that unless there is reason to think this information will be leaked anyway. They also often warn parties they leak so they would have time to prepare for damage
oh my god, I love it when people try to say Icelandic words or names
@Halldor1994 lol….I must be one of your top loves because I have no idea how to pronounce any. :)
Everyone everywhere needs to support Iceland and the founder of Wikileaks for their courage in promoting the publication of the truth. We are all sick and tired of the blatant censorship that the US is doing on the internet and news. The US doesn’t want to protect “military” secrets, it wants to protect corrupt American politicians and corruption in Iraq and Afghanistan to prevent the corruption from being exposed and exposing the US for what it is – A NATION OF HYPOCRISY!
@USStateSponTerrorism Its not ONLY USA, UK and even Australia is censoring hard way – end let’s even not go in to China or Russia, Kora etc.
Lets not keep are eyes only on USA as they are not the world
@WaffaMargus The only reason I concentrate on Zionist Occupied America is because our government is responsible for financing most of the trouble that is taking place in the world today, through direct invasions and occupation of other countries, false flag operations, and financing the worst terrorists in the world today, Israel !