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

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  • @vzq
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    113 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
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      43 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.

    • BrikoXOPM
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      23 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.

    • BrikoXOPM
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      3 months ago

      Trump did offer him a pardon if he exposed his source of the leak publically. He refused.

      • @antidote101@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Perhaps you should read the first link in my comment and figure out who that source was, and step out of denial.

        …and I guess you’re fine with him blaming a DNC staffer, whose parents on top of dealing with their son being murdered, then also had to face claims he was the source of tampering in one of the most controversial elections in US history?

        Wow AND he was protecting Russia? How er… Great of him. \s