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> People aren't automatically innocent in the eyes of the public just because they successfully avoid seeing a trial for nearly a decade by fleeing the country
by jmkni 5y ago
> People aren't automatically innocent in the eyes of the public just because they successfully avoid seeing a trial for nearly a decade by fleeing the country they are wanted in
It's weird how many on HN have this attitude to McAfee, but not to Assange.
- breakfastduck 5y agoI don't think Assange is a fair comparison. He has influenced the world in much more significant ways.
- babypuncher 5y agoThat is strange, I always saw both figures as being popular among the *ahem* politicized conspiracy theorist crowd that has become so prevalent online in the last 5-6 years.
- xtracto 5y agoAll these pro/against witch-hunts remind me of Hans Reiser [short] episode. When the Reiser saga was unfolding, there was a lot of support from people that identified with the "nerd" group. I remember reading so many theories on why "he couldn't have done it", how "it is completely normal to remove the passenger sit form your car", or to buy books on how to clean a crime scene... Not saying I sway one way or another with Assange or McCafee... just that, as in Reiser's case, I am sure there's so much information we don't know that running to make an armchair judgement is most likely bound to get you to the wrong conclusion.
- colordrops 5y agoAnd yet you seem to suggest a particular conclusion and even claim that armchair judgement can lead you to something worse than 50/50 odds.
- zamadatix 5y agoI've seen plenty of support here that Assange was not guilty of rape but not on the basis "he wasn't legally convicted" rather other reasoning. I.e. the opinion of guilty or not guilty is different but that's not what the line you quoted is talking about, it's just saying the lack of legal conviction is not the same thing as evidence they didn't do the crime (which seems consistent for both McAfee and Assange).