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Various ag-gag attempts have been passed, but shot down in courts, so I updated the title from the original to clarify that they weren't necessarily 100% successful despite their persistence in trying and getting them passed in states

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    Unfortunately it's now no longer just limited to the US. Australia has some Ag-gag laws, Various Canadian provinces have tried and there is active ongoing litigation of one in Ontario, and France has some Ag-gag laws

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Remember that journalist who ended up in FlorenceADX in the 2000s without having had access to a lawyer, simply for reporting on the AgGag legislation and being found on a public road taking photographs of an empty feedlot?

    He managed to get released, but he was straight up blackholed for a while, potentially indefinitely.

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    Just came across her case now, when trying to find the article by the guy I mentioned (unable to, and had major difficulty a while ago, so suspect it has been scrubbed).

    They like to suppress the existence of these laws too, and to shift them around - easing, tightening, easing, tightening, and changing, so neither activists nor whistleblowers nor journalists nor randomers who stumble across horrors can know how to keep themselves safe, or to have any ability to weigh up the level of risk they are taking on with any action, and so it is considerably harder to challenge the law let alone any conviction.

    That journalist wasn't an activist at all at the time or connected to activist circles. He'd been investigating reports about a worsening legislative climate, and had taken care to keep well within the confines of the (publicly known) law.

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