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What could someone leak that would justify locking them up, according to you?

• Hermel 6y ago
  Anything that puts human lifes at risk. That's why Assange and his team worked in close collaboration with a number of news organizations (for example the Guardian) and reached out to the US government in order to remove all information from the leak that could put someone at risk. The unredacted version of the leaked documents were released by cryptome, and not by wikileaks.
• DiogenesKynikos 6y ago
  Assange didn't leak anything. He published documents that Manning, an insider, leaked to him. The First Amendment gives broad protection to publishers. If the government wants to stop a publication, it has to demonstrate that the publication would create a highly specific, concrete and irreparable harm. This is the result of New York Times v. United States (1971). Justice Hugo Black's concurring opinion goes after the nebulous "security" justification for limiting freedom of the press: > The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. > [...] > The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_S...