• tigeruppercut
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        4 months ago

        Yeah, Japanese the press also is pretty beholden to government whims as well.

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          4 months ago

          I think that combines another issue here (or two, one being cultural rather than legal, but that’s a whole other can o’ worms). Papers will report on certain things, but I don’t know where the line in. Some tabloids will report all kinds of shit and eat the cost of any judgement if it happens.

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        4 months ago

        That’s not actually what it’s designed to do and whistle-blowing has a process that isn’t “run directly to the press”.