Julian Assange
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- NBQ008
- Leave Colin Mochrie alone!Wolfboy
- shit the old man is him!!! Poor dudeProjectile
- Wow...he got oldyuekit
- 7 years in a small room, no sunlight, health problems, stress.NBQ00
- he's gone full on Jesus mode...RumperChunk
- lettermen?pango
- ^ lolsection_014
- Hehe I forgot what he did... and did what he do work or not?robotron3k
- Age 47, looks like he's 74Krassy
- embassy: well..does he Spark Joy?
5 seconds later...exador1 - he looks like a gnomepinkfloyd
- hehe, exadorNairn
- now the fuckstick will be in permanent jail.utopian
- Helped rig the election for trump. Glad hes gone.CygnusZero4
- rotfl, he is deadsted
- Soon Sted, soon.PhanLo
- in a world run by lies and propaganda, this is what happens to those who try to uncover the truth.Milan
- Hope UK can protect him.api
- UK will be gift-wrapping him right now.PhanLo
- how convenient they have never leaked about Russia & its oligarchs close to Putin, even when they had the chance they opted not to, he has an agendaernexbcn
- ^ this.Krassy
- if you live in a western society and are rooting for this idiot, you should know betterernexbcn
- we should know better http://2.bp.blogspot…api
- http://3.bp.blogspot…api
- there is freedom to information. and there is also recklessly releasing info putting people's life at risk.pango
- like these civilian lives were put at risk and labeled as "collateral damage"?
https://www.youtube.…Milan
- set12
What a coincidence
- haha, niceGnash
- that's a lot of money for a slob hackerrenderedred
- In world politics there's never a coincidence :)NBQ00
- the two were linked by the mainstream press back in February
https://www.ft.com/c…Fax_Benson - Ecuador has been borrowing money for a whileFax_Benson
- https://www.bloomber…Fax_Benson
- It's really not that much money for someone who can potentially out these scumbags finally. They want to make an example of him, clearly.set
- ernexbcn3
He's not doing journalism, gimme a break. This guy was given the opportunity to leak russian gov. emails and chose not to. So let's not pretend he's doing what he's been doing for the greater good, if that were the case, were are the russian leaks? to me this dude is conspiring against western democracies.
- Meddled in the US elections.
Meddled in the Catalonian crisis in Spain
Meddled in brexit? not sure but was visited by Farage in the embassy, list goes on.ernexbcn - the mans a loose cannon, you only have to watch the docs about him and approved by him to see that. Narcissism one helluva drug.fadein11
- Russian leaks or not does that take away anything from the leaked stuff? And all the war crimes exposed?NBQ00
- of course it does take away when your so called journalist/leaks agency has an agenda or it's probably sponsored by a kleptocracy like Russiaernexbcn
- were offered a substantial russian leak and dismissed it, another group ended up releasing it, but they originally wanted this guy's joint to do it, refusedernexbcn
- I don't think the 2010 Iraq video that exposed war crimes has any agenda. Why should such stuff be secret from the public.NBQ00
- keep missing the pointernexbcn
- the Iraq vid release was peak wiki though, important work. Not sure anything much important has followed? feel free to correct me though.fadein11
- shouldn't western democracies be thankful if journalists or civil people inform puplic if the state is doing wrong when mass killing civilians for "greatergood"api
- Of coursefadein11
- The idea of Wikileaks is good and they released some important stuff. Assange also showed himself to be someone who is not exactly the pinnacle of journalisticyuekit
- integrity. Probably the lowest point was when he suggested Seth Rich, a guy who worked at for the Democratic Party and was randomly murdered, was the source ofyuekit
- the leaked emails, when in fact he almost certainly knew that they were hacked by the Russian government.yuekit
- Doesn't mean he should be prosecuted for publishing classified information, but there was definitely a weird split between the image they put forward as thisyuekit
- neutral journalistic organization, and the reality that they clearly did have an agenda.yuekit
- +1 apiset
- Meddled in the US elections.
- NBQ001
Like him or not, this is what happens to real journalists and journalism.
Which is why real journalism doesn't exist anymore.
- Do you really think he was a journalist?jmckinno
- He did what real journalists should've done: uncovering a lot of shit and corruption. And not to forget all the war crimes.NBQ00
- and sometimes there are consequences for the laws you break along the way.
the megalomaniac gonna die,severian - It did take this thread 7 years to peak.robotron3k
- wow, he looks old and broken.renderedred
- render, what a surprise eh?NBQ00
- he always had grey hair thoughpinkfloyd
- He steals or is given stolen information, And publishes the information as is. How is that journalism?jmckinno
- WikiLeaks is not engaged in journalism because it doesn’t analyze or contextualize the material it publishes; it merely serves as a dumping ground for informatijmckinno
- he brought/leaked the truth about innocent killings (manning) to the public. now he has to pay for it. hope UK does not give him to US, it would be wrong. asyl.api
- jmckinno - he leaked it to newspapers who contextualised it for us, right? And being locked in a room for 7 years surely makes anyone a narcissistIanbolton
- ppl confuse Wikileaks for journalism bcs it's a newsworthy, fairly reliable source of datarenderedred
- MrT3
- renderedred0
Pamela Anderson visits 'innocent man' Julian Assange in prison
- He's the biggest hero in modern times and media have miraculously managed to turn people against him.set
- Look at those air quotes, lol. Fuck me, to be that easily manipulated.set
- yup, air quotes all over ;)renderedred
- doubt the Guardian can get away with not using quote marks, otherwise they'd be saying he's innocent of the thing he's in prison for, which he isn't, legallyFax_Benson
- Sure but he's only being detained for skipping bail so far. The detest I've witnessed every day people manipulated in to having for him is really rather scary.set
- so is completely airbrushing out facts that don't fit the messiah narrative, imo.Fax_Benson
- did he deal with Putin? did he deal with Roger Stone on leaking info? did he engineer the release of certain data that helped throw the US election?exador1
- i used to think this guy was pretty amazing. But at a certain point, i began wondering who he's been working for and with etc...exador1
- Milan1
“I have been in this embassy without sunlight for six years and essentially isolated from most people for seven months,” Assange told the court, “including electronic communication, the telephone etc, from my young children.”
“It has ... interfered with my ability to work, to make a living, and with my deeply held principles that I have fought for all my life, which is to uphold the right of freedom of expression, the right for people to know, the right of the freedom of the press and the right for everyone to participate in their society and the broader society.”
“Due to my isolation, I have not been able to participate in the debates occurring around me and that has resulted in a climate of libel and fake news that might be expected for someone who has been in the business of exposing very large and very powerful corrupt organisations or organisations that abuse human rights.”
- ernexbcn0
- shots fired!_niko
- spellcheck disabled!_niko
- Oh Pam. LOLKrassy
- Yeah, we gave up Assange to deflect from Brexit lol.see_thru
- I dearly wish I had a time machine to tell my teenage self that in the future:Eighty
- Donald Trump is the President and Pamela Anderson is livid about the UK's role in European politics.Eighty
- NBQ001
- Looks about 70 or 80yuekit
- he's 47! damnKrassy
- jihardishapesalad
- NBQ001
Looking at his sentence ("only" 40 weeks and no extradition to USA) it seems his own paranoia got him 7 years into the embassy for nothing.
- NBQ000
ugh
- i_monk0
France’s government has said it would consider offering Julian Assange political asylum if he were to ask the country for refuge.
https://www.independent.co.uk/ne…
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- Hmmm yeah but he is already in the custody of UK police...?yuekit
- So if he can break out of jail and swim across the ocean to France, maybe it will work.yuekit
- If France says "Assange has diplomatic immunity" or w/e the equivalent, doesn't he?i_monk
- but Nacron is Trump's bellboyMilan
- If it worked that way, he wouldn't have needed to hide in the embassy for 7 years. Ecuador granted him asylum, but the UK wouldn't let him leave the country.yuekit
- set2
- ernexbcn0
- https://twitter.com/…ernexbcn
- I think that was because Assange hoped he could maybe escape to Russia like Snowden.NBQ00
- It's unfortunate that being in such a desperate situation he was in may have caused WikiLeaks to be more biased towards not publishing certain things.NBQ00
- that's one way to look at it...ernexbcn