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I doubt most people care. Outside of a few friends, I doubt most people I know know that this is 1) going on and 2) who Assange even is.
by LandR 7y ago
I doubt most people care.
Outside of a few friends, I doubt most people I know know that this is 1) going on and 2) who Assange even is.
- jacobush 7y agoIt doesn't help that Assange is kind of unsavory. It should not affect things, but it does.
- marcus_holmes 7y agoalso that "mainstream" journalists refuse to recognise him as a journalist and defend his rights like they would one of their own.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> also that "mainstream" journalists refuse to recognise him as a journalist and defend his rights like they would one of their own. Mainstream American journalists have been bending over backwards doing exactly that with regard to the US indictment, even when it requires rather unusual characterization of what journalism normally entails to make the case. They haven't been focussed on the extradition because they don't view the extradition as the problem, but the indictment.
- bufferoverflow 7y agoIt doesn't matter, he is still a journalist, and he has accomplished more than they will in a life time.
- vintermann 7y agoIt's ten years since he was arrested (just weeks after the Cablegate release - but they'll have you believe that was a complete coincidence). Kids who were 8 years old at the time can vote now. It makes you wonder what the world would have looked like, had Wikileaks not been shattered. It's not just Assange. Arjen Kamphuis disappeared without a trace on a trip in Norway. Ola Bini is jail in Ecuador. Aaron Swartz and James Dolan, who worked on SecureDrop and probably on Wikileaks' own submission system, both committed suicide. State propaganda ops from all sides rushed in to fill the void after Wikileaks was crippled.
- whamlastxmas 7y agoChelsea Manning is in jail yet again because they're forcing her to testify again and she's refusing