Link: NYTimes.com

“It was humiliating and ludicrous to have to wear a straight face and explain all my jokes to the detectives,” said Mr. Park, who faces up to seven years in jail if convicted.

Link: Threat Level

Google’s announcement three weeks ago — buried in a Blogger help page — went unnoticed until it was highlighted by TechDows on Tuesday

Link: Boing Boing

The false choice between degrees of political censorship belies Twitter’s third option, of continuing its censorship-free tradition instead of playing with political fire abroad.

Link: Threat Level

The agency made that argument Wednesday in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch, which claims the CIA should release the photos taken by U.S. forces. The American public, Judicial Watch said, has a “right to these historical artifacts.”

Link: Boing Boing

A new Twitter policy which goes into effect today allows the social network “to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country,” so that Twitter can further expand globally and “enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression.”

Link: The National Press Club

A “perfect storm” of repression has raged against photojournalists in the United States in recent years, according to an accomplished news photographer who has become an attorney representing his former colleagues, Mickey H. Osterreicher

Link: BlogPost

We now tie with Argentina, Romania and Latvia at “satisfactory” levels of freedom. The reason for the plummet? “The many arrests of journalists covering Occupy Wall Street protests.”

Boing Boing

Jermaine Green, a recently returned US Army veteran (who served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan), videoed an LA County Sheriff Deputy strike a mentally handicapped woman in the head. The incident took place on a city bus. The deputy then approached Green and ordered Green to hand over his cell phone

NPPA Advocacy Committee

Specifically, the wording at the top of that page entitled “What Should I Consider Suspicious?” on which the very first bullet point states, “Individuals observed filming or photographing passing trains, locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, rail yard operations, tracks, bridges, tunnels, commuter rail trains, subway trains, transit trains, stations and platforms.”

NPPA

And while Garcia waited for his day in court, his White House press credential expired. Normally renewed as a mere formality, this time around Garcia’s credential was denied.