{"id":3645,"date":"2010-02-12T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2010-02-12T21:00:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:00:46","slug":"iceland_aims_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3645","title":{"rendered":"Iceland aims to become an offshore haven for journalists and leakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2010\/02\/iceland-aims-to-become-an-offshore-haven-for-journalists-and-leakers\/\">Jonathan Stray<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>On Tuesday, the Icelandic parliament is expected to introduce a measure aimed at making the country an international center for investigative journalism publishing, by passing the strongest combination of source protection, freedom of speech, and libel-tourism prevention laws in the world.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nSupporters of the proposal say the move would make Iceland an \u201coffshore publishing center\u201d for free speech, analogous to the offshore financial havens that allow corporations to hide capital from authorities. Could global news organizations with a home office in Reykjav\u00edk soon be as common as Delaware corporations or Cayman Islands assets?<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n\u201cThis is a legislative package to create a haven for freedom of expression,\u201d Icelandic member of parliament Birgitta J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir confirmed to me, saying that a proposal for comprehensive media law reform will be filed in parliament on Tuesday, and that whistle-blowing specialists Wikileaks has been involved in drafting it. There have been persistent hints of an Icelandic media move in recent weeks, including tweets from Wikileaks and a cryptic message from the newly created @icelandmedia Twitter account.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe text of the proposal, called the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, is not yet public, but the most detailed evidence comes from a video of a talk by Julian Assange and Daniel Schmitt of Wikileaks, given at the Chaos Communications Congress hacker conference in Berlin on Dec. 27:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2010\/02\/iceland-aims-to-become-an-offshore-haven-for-journalists-and-leakers\/\">Jonathan Stray<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>On Tuesday, the Icelandic parliament is expected to introduce a measure aimed at making the country an international center for investigative journalism publishing, by passing the strongest combination of source protection, freedom of speech, and libel-tourism prevention laws in the world.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nSupporters of the proposal say the move would make Iceland an \u201coffshore publishing center\u201d for free speech, analogous to the offshore financial havens that allow corporations to hide capital from authorities. Could global news organizations with a home office in Reykjav\u00edk soon be as common as Delaware corporations or Cayman Islands assets?<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n\u201cThis is a legislative package to create a haven for freedom of expression,\u201d Icelandic member of parliament Birgitta J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir confirmed to me, saying that a proposal for comprehensive media law reform will be filed in parliament on Tuesday, and that whistle-blowing specialists Wikileaks has been involved in drafting it. There have been persistent hints of an Icelandic media move in recent weeks, including tweets from Wikileaks and a cryptic message from the newly created @icelandmedia Twitter account.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe text of the proposal, called the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, is not yet public, but the most detailed evidence comes from a video of a talk by Julian Assange and Daniel Schmitt of Wikileaks, given at the Chaos Communications Congress hacker conference in Berlin on Dec. 27:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,8,14,44,9,17,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}