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False, false, all false. Some of Assange's activity could be described as journalism, but a lot of it was not and clearly ran afoul of laws on the books. It is

False, false, all false. Some of Assange's activity could be described as journalism, but a lot of it was not and clearly ran afoul of laws on the books. It is also a generationally-unique case and far from any kind of norm. Detentions of journalists in the context of protests etc needs to be carefully monitored but also has legitimate safety impacts in some cases. The trend in the US was not good this year, but it was an unusual year in multiple ways and the trend was not that bad either. The part that matters more is that very few are being tried for anything. A short detention is not "jailing journalists" in the traditional dictatorial sense.

boomboomsubban 6y ago
>but a lot of it was not and clearly ran afoul of laws on the books Though I find this claim to be ridiculous in general, even the US argument boils down to him claiming he'll help crack a password that provided no additional data and him saying "curious eyes never run dry." And a "generationally unique case" is the kind used to build precedent, like how locking up foreign journalists critical of the US is OK. Beyond that, you just have a baseless statement that US detention is justified and acceptable while Chinese detention is not.