Julian Assange is free.
After living in a cell for more than 5 years, he can soon go home and meet his family again.
I’m wondering if it was worth the sacrifice. The governments and tech companies are spying more than ever on everyone.
Assange has been held in […] Prison on the outskirts of London for five years, and he previously spent seven years in self-exile at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London […] until his asylum was withdrawn and he was forcibly carried out of the embassy and arrested in April 2019.
12 years… fuck…
I obviously have issues with his actions in '16
But they were going after him for releasing the footage of the US gunning down civilians. Not his actions during the election.
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Good for him, I hope he is ok
He’s a traitor, and because of him many people died. I hope he’s not ok. Edit: downvote me all you want, but that won’t change the fact that Assange gave very sensitive information to regimes and dictators that has gotten innocent people murdered.
Are you talking about the claim that he endangered CIA agents? That was just some bullshit they cooked up to get him on, and I don’t think anybody even claimed that somebody actually died.
Imagine thinking exposing the CIA should be a crime, because the poor small beans CIA agents need protection. Who wouldn’t want to protect imperial blackmailers, hit men, weapons smugglers and death squad commanders?
You are the traitor for siding with the oppressor.
You are the traitor for siding with the oppressor.
Right supporting Lukashenko’s regime is such a noble endeavour!
Too many anarchists and tankies use Lemmy unfortunately.
Traitor? To what country?
Yes, but that’s not treason. It could be treason if he was American, but he isn’t.
Assange is a citizen of Australia and since The United States is known for spying on its allies the act of exposing US informants would be closer to serving ones own country than act of treason.
You might be interested to learn about a couple actual trained spies. guess what they were accused of?
Treason is not what you think it is. Its a nice word to throw around when you are angry at someone but it has a very specific meaning.The consequences of doing a bad thing are on the person doing it, not the whistle blower.
If they wanted to keep their secrets, they should of made sure they weren’t so fucking rough. Nobody would of leaked any files if those heli pilots were saving children instead of joking after killing them.
Snowden is also considered a traitor, I really don’t give a shit who the US says is a traitor. I only wish the worst for people working for 3 letter agencies.
Too many rule 3 breaking comments, locking this post. Let’s be excellent to eachother please!
If anybody needs a catch up on the facts of this case:
https://apnews.com/article/assange-wikileaks-plea-deal-39b72e6be6a775dae9b008728a46e595
After living 7.5 years in an Ecuadorian embassy, I wonder if he feels like that portion was all a waste of time, going to those lengths to avoid extradition. Though maybe the timing worked in his favor in this case, given its been years since Wikileaks was relevant, whereas had he been extradited years ago he might’ve be faced a harsher situation.
Hopefully he can safely return to his home country and take a long deserved rest from this all.
It’ll probably take a decade or more to recover mentally from all the shit he has gone through.I just hope he takes his time to recover and passes the wikileaks torch as all the accumulated resentment and paranoia will probably take a while to shed off. Going all out on anti-american frenzy on social media and whatnot would likely lead to undesirable outcome for him in public eye.
I’m wondering if it was worth the sacrifice. The governments and tech companies are spying more than ever on everyone.
Snowden revelations and Wikileaks have made E2EE pretty much a standard for most internet services. People are also far less naive when it comes to online privacy which has spawned bunch of regulations like GDPR and bunch of investigations on how well services and products handle information security.
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He’ll be back to supporting russian imperialism and working with russian security services. Even more people will end up in russian concentration camps (where they have it way worse than he did in British prison) because of his actions.
The guy literally worked for russia today and admitted that he had a personal policy of never criticizing russia in a substantive manner.
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WikiLeaks was churning along fine and doing actual useful work in relative anonymity until Mr Assange’s ego decided WikiLeaks needed a figurehead, painting a target on his back - you reap what you sow.
Just goes to show if you’re an actual good guy, you get the shaft (Snowden), but if you’re a rapist who repeatedly helps fascists, you have hope.
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Fuck assange. Your hate for the US has you supporting an asshole that works for Russia.
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What elections have you meddled?
