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Julian Assange is an awarded journalist and one of the most famous hactivists of the 21st century[0]. Wikileaks (founded by him) published documents supplied by

by macns 11y ago

Julian Assange is an awarded journalist and one of the most famous hactivists of the 21st century[0]. Wikileaks (founded by him) published documents supplied by Chelsea Manning including the Collateral Murder video[1], the Afghanistan war logs[2], the Iraq war logs[3] and many others. Who would you call a hero? Have you watched the Manning videos? [0] Julian Paul Assange (born 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, an organisation which he founded in 2006. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrik... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_documents_leak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_documents_leak [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_documents_leak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_documents_leak EDIT: s/awarder/awarded

ascorbic 11y ago
Doing good things doesn't give you magic credits to let you off bad behaviour.
PlzSnow 11y ago
You forgot to mention the rape stuff.
- notgood 11y ago
  Yeah, the time he got horny so didn't use a condom and that constitutes "rape" for some people; accusation already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033327
  - ascorbic 11y ago
    Luckily "getting too horny" is not a defence against rape charges.
    - notgood 11y ago
      Not using condom is not valid proof in most countries neither, it should be a completely different crime "she asked for condom, I didn't use it, so I'm rapist" makes no sense under no line of logic, maybe it should a different crime called "non-compliance of sex risk accordance" or something, calling it rape is just the same as the silly extremist feminism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpbeSgMl434 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpbeSgMl434
      - ascorbic 11y ago
        The specifics of the charge and whether it counts as rape, were played out in the Supreme Court, which ruled that it would count.
        notgood 11y ago
        That comment just rapped me, see you in court.

by macns 11y ago

ascorbic 11y ago

Doing good things doesn't give you magic credits to let you off bad behaviour.

PlzSnow 11y ago

You forgot to mention the rape stuff.

notgood 11y ago
Yeah, the time he got horny so didn't use a condom and that constitutes "rape" for some people; accusation already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033327
- ascorbic 11y ago
  Luckily "getting too horny" is not a defence against rape charges.
  - notgood 11y ago
    Not using condom is not valid proof in most countries neither, it should be a completely different crime "she asked for condom, I didn't use it, so I'm rapist" makes no sense under no line of logic, maybe it should a different crime called "non-compliance of sex risk accordance" or something, calling it rape is just the same as the silly extremist feminism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpbeSgMl434 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpbeSgMl434
    - ascorbic 11y ago
      The specifics of the charge and whether it counts as rape, were played out in the Supreme Court, which ruled that it would count.
      - notgood 11y ago
        That comment just rapped me, see you in court.