In the US: implore the Tribune Company not to sell its newspapers to the Koch brothers.

If you are a journalist, or anyone else that must fear a repressive state, email is inherently unsafe, because you can't hide who you are talking with (i.e., metadata).

The article refers to trade secrets as "intellectual property", which is a gratuitous confusion because it conflates them with unrelated issues such as copyrights and patents. Every time the term "intellectual property" is used, it causes confusion — please join me in avoiding that term.

Egyptian thugs killed 36 prisoners. The thugs said they were shot (with teargas) while trying to escape.

David Miranda describes his nine-hour interrogation.

Using the "anti-terror" law to interrogate dissidents entering the UK is standard practice.

The UK government forced the Guardian's London office to delete all of Snowden's material, on threat of seizing it.

Fortunately there were copies elsewhere, but this illustrates the fact that the UK and US governments will go to any lengths of lies and abuse to crush journalism that investigates their nastiest secrets.

It won't remain limited to those issues, because the plutocratic state is in cahoots with corporations that endanger our lives, health, and liberty. We have seen the UK thugs help businesses blacklist workers, while in the US, investigating factory farms is now a crime in many states.

These examples demonstrate that the US or UK will use its repressive power against any journalism that business finds annoying — not that different from China.