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Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 4 months ago by 1984 to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I fail to see how that's relevant here. The guy isn't a US national and wasn't in the US when he committed his alleged "crime".

He has absolutely no duty towards the US and is 100% free to associate with whoever he wants, and yes, even Russia.

US has no standing whatsoever in this situation, and it's a travesty of international law that Sweden and the UK even entertained the idea of extraditing him. The response should've been "go sue the American who actually committed that crime on American soil. Oh wait, you've already convicted her, and she's already out after serving her sentence? WTF are you going on about then?"

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The connection from Assange to Russia was laid out in the OP. Russia had a vested interest in skewing and interfering with US politics in 2016.

There's the relevancy you failed to see.

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even if Assange himself was openly interfering in US politics, how is that relevant? If he isn't a US person, and he's not on US soil, why would he be bound by US law? US law isn't universal law, you know.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People don't like the guy, that's enough jurisdiction for them!

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

From this thread, looks like you're right, sadly...

[–] sunzu@kbin.run -5 points 4 months ago

I can't tell if we got bots/shills but these assange threads are getting swamped with comments and voting.

Not sure if this real public sentiment or somebody is setting it for this "sensitive" topic.

Nobody can really properly state their position beyond, that guy is a rapist and russian asset... seems like an op tbh

Same old smear attempts that US has been using for a decade.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The point is that he had/has an interest in keeping Russia happy, that means that everything WL has published since taking Russia's money is probably only to the detriment of the west.

That doesn't mean that WL publishes false/fake information, however true propaganda is still propaganda and serves a political agenda.

By allying themselves with Russia, WL has made it clear that they are only really focusing on the west's transgressions, and will mostly ignore Russia's.

They are no longer impartial activists, they have taken sides, but still claim to be impartial.

That is the issue