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by hogFeast 1797 days ago
I think one of the reasons behind this proposed change is keeping up with changes in what it means to be a journalist.

In the UK, public interest has never been a defence. And given the increasing role that nation states are having in leaking stuff to journalists (even political parties, Labour used documents that were leaked by Russia at their conference in 2019 iirc...ofc, they were totally misleading, which was the point), it is reasonable to ask where the line with espionage actually is.