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Indeed. Though it is still inspiring that there are people like Assange who are willing to face personal hardship in the name of democratic values such as press
by resters 2y ago
Indeed. Though it is still inspiring that there are people like Assange who are willing to face personal hardship in the name of democratic values such as press freedom and government accountability / transparency.
None of the US leaders whose crimes were exposed by Assange have faced any consequences whatsoever, and many of them remain influential, lauded figures in American society.
- qsdf38100 2y ago[flagged]
- 9dev 2y agoWell, might it be that Assange did never receive something comparable to the US cables? You do remember he used to run a platform to publish whistleblower files, right?
- BiteCode_dev 2y agoI think we have vastly enough material to criticize Russia, we don't need more. Our societies are already convinced those are dictatorships. But it took Snowden and Assange to show us how deeply messed up our societies are. It's very possible they are both Russian assets, but what they reported have been verified, and we needed to know it. The way you are reacting is close to a religious interpretation of the world. It's not us VS them. It's not a football match. We have a society to build, and it's been taken from us, one piece at a time. If we don't want to end up like Russia, we need all info we can get. And given the huge price they paid for it, yes, I consider them heroes. And I think history will remember them as such.