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Planned Espionage Act could jail journos and whistleblowers as spies

Graham Cobb Silver badge

Public Interest

Public Interest should be a defence for every proposed offence in this Act. And intent must be taken into account during any sentencing.

And there should be no offence involved in publishing information already released on the Internet. There is absolutely no point going back to the completely failed "Spycatcher" days of attempting to prevent publication in the UK of something freely available elsewhere.

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