“The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) maintains a list of jailed news workers around the world. Only one name is listed in the Western Hemisphere: Roger Shuler — a blogger jailed indefinitely in the United States. Shuler, a blogger whose writing about Alabama lawmakers and judicial power players has regularly invited defamation claims, was arrested in October on a contempt charge relating to a defamation suit filed by the son of a former Alabama governor. The removal of defamatory blog posts should certainly not be a condition for attaining freedom — least of all in a country where the protection of free speech is constitutionally inscribed.”
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/13/jailed_in_the_u_s_for_blogging_whither_the_first_amendment/
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