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What would the alternative be? Expats can commit cyber crimes risk-free? Just don't be a citizen of the country you reside in or the country you're attacking an
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
What would the alternative be? Expats can commit cyber crimes risk-free? Just don't be a citizen of the country you reside in or the country you're attacking and you're immune!
They can extradite him because Australia says that they can. Most of our countries at the highest levels agreed to this. It's called international law and it's messy.
- eastbound 3y ago> Expats can commit cyber crimes risk-free? Not an expat. Julian Assange is not a US citizen, not on US ground, does not work for a US company. He can’t be committing “espionage” because he’s not inside; at most he can be committing “reporting” upon US practices. Same question arose when EU wrote the GDPR: It was a debate at the time that a US company with no activity in EU could be trialled in EU for misdemeanor against EU laws. Apparently it can.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoHow is he not an expat of Australia?
- saalweachter 3y agoOnly Americans get to be expats, everyone else has to be immigrants.
- eastbound 3y agoHe came to UK. He’s not an Australian expat in USA.
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- _fizz_buzz_ 3y agoI think the case against Assange is a bit flimsy. But this argument doesn’t hold. If you hire a hitman and kill someone in the US, you commit a crime in the US. Even if you are not a US citizen of, have never been to the US and don’t work for a US company.
- marcus_holmes 3y agoIf you insult the prophet Mohammed in a Facebook post should Iran be able to extradite you from the USA to Iran in order to charge and punish you for committing that crime in their country? Obviously not. Yet the USA does this routinely. It's effectively what Assange did.
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoNormally I think it has to be a crime in both countries. Breaking into computers is.
- marcus_holmes 3y agoAssange did not break into any computers. That was Manning. Publishing US state secrets is not a crime in any other country.
- amanaplanacanal 3y ago> Assange did not break into any computers. I think that is what the trial is to decide.
- marcus_holmes 3y agoNo, the USA is specifically only charging him with publication of unredacted documents. They are not charging him with obtaining the secrets (that was Manning) but just with publishing them without redacting the names of US informants. At least, that's what they're claiming at the extradition; what they subsequently choose to actually charge him with once he's on US soil is a different thing.
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