Trevor Timm: How free is our freedom of the press?
Trevor Timm: Jak wolna jest wolność prasy?
Trevor Timm is the co-founder and executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports and defends journalism dedicated to transparency and accountability. Full bio
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
Edward Snowden's name,
słyszał o Edwardzie Snowdenie,
he famously exposed
the phone calls of Americans.
rozmowy telefoniczne Amerykanów.
US intelligence operation
operację amerykańskiego wywiadu
handed over blueprints
się nie spodobał?
of a US government investigation
rządowego dochodzenia,
that he testify
for the US government's recent pattern
nowego zachowania rządu USA:
and spying on journalists.
i szpiegowania dziennikarzy.
secret information in the public interest.
w interesie publicznym.
if the media can't also gather that news
gromadzić takich informacji
of the brave men and women
have done before him:
reporterów przed nim:
of going to federal prison.
więzienia federalnego.
when a curious thing happened.
stało się coś niezwykłego.
it was vital to their case,
że jest to kluczowe dla sprawy,
to Risen altogether.
z żądań wobec Risena.
elektronicznego nadzoru
of electronic surveillance,
reporters and sources can hide.
dla reporterów i informatorów.
to have Risen testify,
zmuszania Risena do zeznań,
testify against him instead.
and without his consent,
his financial and banking information,
dane finansowe i bankowe,
of flights he had taken.
they used to convict Jeffrey Sterling,
by skazać Jeffreya Sterlinga,
and CIA whistleblower.
jeden z wielu przypadków.
to protect whistleblowers,
ochronę informatorów,
has prosecuted more
rządy razem wzięte.
could be a problem,
considers so much of what it does secret.
story about national security
praktycznie wszystkie istotne doniesienia
coming to a journalist.
dziennikarzy z informatorami.
unable to do their job
mogła wykonywać swojej pracy,
is supposed to protect
expanded ability to spy on everyone.
lepiej wszystkich szpiegować.
the government
używać techiki do ochrony źródeł
even better than before.
they begin speaking with them,
after the fact.
gdy Risen pisał swoją książkę,
when Risen was writing his book,
than regular emails or phone calls.
niż e-maile czy rozmowy telefoniczne.
submission system
Internet luminary Aaron Swartz,
programistę Aarona Swartza,
non-profit, w której pracuję,
at the non-profit where I work,
or send information
on any other contact form.
and stored on a server
i przechowana na serwerze,
has access to.
tylko agencja prasowa.
secretly demand the information,
po kryjomu żądać informacji
they would demand
only a small part of the puzzle
tylko małą częścią układanki
in the 21st century.
prasy w XXI wieku.
all over the world
new spying techniques
to make sure
the tech-savvy whistleblowers,
informatorzy, jak Edward Snowden,
an avenue for exposing wrongdoing.
przyszłego informatora
next veteran's health care whistleblower
about Flint's dirty water,
to help the brave men and women
by pomóc odważnym mężczyznom i kobietom
all of our rights under the Constitution.
praw nas wszystkich.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Trevor Timm - Writer, activist and legal analystTrevor Timm is the co-founder and executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports and defends journalism dedicated to transparency and accountability.
Why you should listen
Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and lawyer who writes a twice weekly column for The Guardian on privacy, free speech, and national security. He has contributed to The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Harvard Law and Policy Review, PBS MediaShift and Politico.
Trevor formerly worked as an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Before that, he helped the longtime General Counsel of The New York Times, James Goodale, write a book on the Pentagon Papers and the First Amendment. He received his J.D. from New York Law School.
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