Espionage Act charges against Assange would criminalize journalism, no matter how often the government calls him a hacker

Espionage Act charges against Assange would criminalize journalism, no matter how often the government calls him a hacker

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  • @vzq
    11•2 months ago

    I’m just pissed off he got himself out of the rape charges by hiding in a closet for long enough.

    • @antidote101@lemmy.world
      4•2 months ago

      The hiding I kind of have sympathy for because he was raised in an Australian cult named “The Family” - which was a matriarchy in which he and other children were made to silently hide in the walls when the authorities came.

      So his issues with women and propensity to hide from authority figures I can kind of understand on a pathological level. Doesn’t make it excusable, I just have sympathy for being a bit messed up in his personal life.

    • BrikoXOPMEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      Same. Instead of actually trying him for something he might have actually done, he’s being persecuted by US because they are embarrassed their dirty secrets got exposed.