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We live in a world where Julian Assange is put in prison and tortured for refusing to confess to his thoughtcrimes and for revealing the thoughts of others to t
by quaquaqua1 7y ago
We live in a world where Julian Assange is put in prison and tortured for refusing to confess to his thoughtcrimes and for revealing the thoughts of others to the public, much to the dismay of the Party, which is all seeing and all knowing.
For those of us who have read 1984, it will sound more than superficial.
- trianglem 7y agoJulian Assange he is the example you choose to bring up in this double speak world
- quaquaqua1 7y agoIf you aren't careful, the next example will someday be yourself! Abstract it if you don't like Assange: anyone who is in prison for telling the truth... it's not a good thing... history is full of thousands if not millions who have died for such crimes, some high profile and some unknown
- briandear 7y agoConspiring to steal classified data isn’t a thoughtcrime. He isn’t being punished because of what he thinks, he is being punished what what he did. Conspiring to obtain classified military data isn’t the same thing as thinking differently.