Flutterby™! : Suppress your right to free speech for your own good

Under penalty of extending a potential 105 year sentence, US government imposes a gag order on jailed journalist Barrett Brown :

According to Dell Cameron of Vice magazine, who attended the hearing, the government argued that the gag order was needed in order to protect Brown from prejudicing his right to a fair trial by making comments to reporters.

Which, indeed, is what the PDF of the order says.

Rolling Stone points out that nobody's exactly sure what he's facing 105 years in jail for:

"What is most concerning about Barrett's case is the disconnect between his conduct and the charged crime," says Ghappour. "He copy-pasted a publicly available link containing publicly available data that he was researching in his capacity as a journalist. The charges require twisting the relevant statutes beyond recognition and have serious implications for journalists as well as academics. Who's allowed to look at document dumps?"

(To be fair, he has also described himself as an "Anonymous" ringleader, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.)