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What a catastrophe. This is the ultimate evidence that there is no such thing as a free press; People are only allowed to report what their masters allow them
by derelicta 3y ago
What a catastrophe.
This is the ultimate evidence that there is no such thing as a free press;
People are only allowed to report what their masters allow them to. The day you cross a line and in Assange's case, the day you report the crimes commited by The Empire, they crush you.
- mnau 3y agoInsert "Always has been" meme.
- vaylian 3y agoDoesn't mean that it always has to stay that way.
- mnau 3y agoPeople tried and kind-of succeeded. It's being eroded, but it still mostly works. US generally doesn't persecute it's citizens for reporting. See Pentagon papers. Assange is not US citizen. Guantanamo bay detainees weren't US citizens. They are free targets.
- JTbane 3y agoagreed, IMO both he and Snowden should have been pardoned as whistleblowers...
- tim333 3y agoThey are not prosecuting him for that. In main for: >allegations that in 2010, Assange offered to help Manning, the Army intelligence analyst, crack a password to break into a classified U.S. government network, an act that would have gone beyond journalism. People report crimes committed by the empire all the time without difficulties. Here's a wikipedia with some for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes