It’s no secret now that there have been explosive recent developments at the Gomery Commission. What is a secret (but only to Canadians) is what those developments are. A U.S. blogger with an inside source has reported on the developments, and (at least) two Canadian newspapers have now reported on the blogger’s story.
Quite apart from the issue of the propriety of a publication ban, there’s a ‘net issue that’s bugging me –
I read both of those newspaper’s stories. Each of them provided enough information to allow me to find the blog with Google within about 15 seconds – two articles, two searches, Google #1 rank both times. A 10 year old could have done it (faster, probably).
Is it a breach of a publication ban to (coyly) provide enough information to allow someone to quickly, cheaply and without any effort at all find a foreign publication that is not abiding by the ban?