The dangerous game of reporting on government spying operations
Markus Beckedahl, the editor-in-chief and
founder of Netzpolitik,org, working at a computer at the website's
office in Berlin, Germany, after an interview with The Associated Press
on Wednesday, August 5, 2015. (Photo: AP)
Most people in the United States have probably never heard of the popular German news site Netzpolitik.org until this month. But it has been in the news for a reason it wish it wasn’t: the German government is threatening two of its reporters with treason. Their supposed offense? Reporting on leaked information about Germany’s mass surveillance capabilities.
These leaks did not come from Edward Snowden, but the content was
eerily similar: they exposed the German government’s secret plans to
step up internet surveillance.
