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> If this case has no chance of going anywhere, then why run? I think it's common knowledge that he cited concerns about extradition to the US as the reason fo
by qb45 9y ago
> If this case has no chance of going anywhere, then why run?
I think it's common knowledge that he cited concerns about extradition to the US as the reason for leaving Sweden.
For context, this was just a few years after The Pirate Bay bust. TPB operated for a while claiming that they are breaking no Swedish law and seemed resistant to takedown attempts until suddenly the police raided them and they were arrested and sentenced. It wasn't uncommon to see claims that Swedish government sold out to Uncle Sam at the time.
- openasocket 9y agoExcept he was in the UK for almost 2 years fighting the extradition to Sweden. The whole time he was saying the Swedish extradition was "actually an attempt to get me into a jurisdiction which will then make it easier to extradite me to the US" as if the UK is any less likely to cooperate with the US. If the US wanted him they could have asked for extradition from the UK during those 2 years.
- reitanqild 9y agoIIRC: as a citizen it was somehow harder to extradite him from UK than from Sweden.
- teddyh 9y agoAs far as I know he’s not a UK citizen, but an Australian citizen. But maybe being from the commonwealth counts as special?