Re: freedom.press, also the firstlook/intercept...

I'm also aware of the exceedingly detrimental effect copyright law has had on general filesharing. Somehow information controls, huge dangers to freedom of speech, are permissible because ideas aren't free but instead licensable at owner's whims.

This wouldn't be a problem if the masses would simply recognize and move their operations to anonymous encrypted networks such as I2P, Phantom, Tor... then at least you would throw true "freedom of speech" up against the wall to be tested... (yes, excepting these fill-traffic-less networks current ability to be outed by passives, and generally exploited by actives.)