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I don't think it's fair, but this case is just a symptom of a much larger problem. In the current universe, you just understand it is an inherent risk if you ar
by bitexploder 6y ago
I don't think it's fair, but this case is just a symptom of a much larger problem. In the current universe, you just understand it is an inherent risk if you are going to play in this space. Russians outright poison and murder people like Assange that go against the state. Isn't right, but a lot of things aren't right or fair in this world.
- cassepipe 6y agoI don't think JA is as naive as to believe that he was going to get a free pass for organising whistleblowing. I think he also knows the fate of Russian real journalists. The cold war has ended but we still get the same justification that what is happening in Russia is worse. It is both true and irrelevant. You can justify litterally anything saying that it's worse elsewhere. It is the most common argument raised in favor of accepting the current state of "democracy". I think it deserves a name at that point. Let's call it the North Korea argument. A strong defense against authoritarianism is not another strong state, it is a well fed, well informed, educated people whose rights are enforced by independent institutions.
- cassepipe 6y agoA lot of things aren't right or fair in this world. No shit. This sentence just says : "Accept things how they are" This is the sentence of tyrans and their priests. "Well not everybody can be free you know" said the slaveowner. "Well not all people are equals you know" said the aristocrat.