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>Had Assange not provided the hacking tools, and had he not attempted to crack the passwords, this indictment would never have happened. He has not been under
by colllectorof 7y ago
>Had Assange not provided the hacking tools, and had he not attempted to crack the passwords, this indictment would never have happened.
He has not been under trial yet, so how do you know with such certainty he actually did that?
>Press freedom and protecting your sources is not the issue here;
A lot of very prominent people who deal with politics, activism and journalism disagree with this assessment. On top of that list would be: Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden and Noam Chomsky. Their reasoning seems pretty solid. And unlike some media people, they didn't suddenly flip-flop in their positions on such issues.
- threeseed 7y agoAllegedly then. It doesn't change the nature of the charges. And who cares what prominent people think ? They aren't the ones who will be judging whether Assange committed a crime or not. Lots of prominent people have defended guilty people before.
- colllectorof 7y ago>And who cares what prominent people think? Well, I happen to value Glenn Greenwald's analysis of the impact this prosecution will have on journalism a tad more than unsubstantiated comments from random people on Hacker News.
- village-idiot 7y agoI for one will wait for a trial rather than speculating on the internet.
- Cacti 7y agoNone of those people are lawyers, and asking Snowden and Greenwald is like asking a defendants mother if their kid did it.