Shutting Down Wikileaks: The Conception of the Press in Cyberspace

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Abstract

This article examines the conception of the press in the age of the Internet, especially focusing on Wikileaks’s function as the putative press. To analyze whether Wikileaks might be compared to the traditional newspaper, this paper examined how courts have addressed the notion of the press and how legal scholars interpreted the meaning of freedom of the press.

Author

• Ahran Park, University of Oregon