In what appears to be little-reported in the U.S. media, the BBC reports:
A US businessman has been charged with offering broadcasts of Hezbollah’s al-Manar satellite television station to customers in the New York-area.
It appears from this report that this individual is being charged with “doing business with a terrorist entity” because of his rebroadcasting of Hezbollah news broadcasts. What is interesting about this is that the broadcasts are news (which may not be balanced, but certainly political speech), and that this is not an individual speaking but rather a business (and as a rebroadcast, it’s not the individual’s own speech). It’s also not immediately clear from the reports whether any money had been given to Hezbollah, or if the spreading of their messages was considered the offense. More charges are said to be pending, so there will certainly be more about this soon.
Edit: it looks as though some of the US media has picked up on it…just not my rss aggregator.