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The campaign against Wikileaks and Assange comes to mind in particular.
by injeolmi_love 3y ago
The campaign against Wikileaks and Assange comes to mind in particular.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoHe was a hacker who leaked information about a single political party, justifying that with "Trump's already bad enough on his own, so no need to sling mud his way". Then said party, and the country's intelligence agencies, got mad. How is that surprising? Of course they're going to discredit and prosecute him; it's the healthy response to a foreign actor trying to target and influence politics to their agenda.
- injeolmi_love 3y agoIts dangerous to think that committing crimes and violating rights is ok as long as the other side loses. A healthy response would have been internal reforms to the party and the abolishment of secret police. Punishing free speech just increases political cynicism in the general public, which can just as easily be taken advantage of by the other side.