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As Julian Assange enjoys his first weekend of freedom in years, there appeared to be no question in the mind of his wife, Stella, about what the family’s priorities were.

The WikiLeaks co-founder would need time to recover, she told reporters after they were reunited in his native Australia, after a deal with US authorities that allowed him to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified defence documents.

What comes after that is one of the most intriguing questions for anyone familiar with how the site he founded in 2006 utterly changed the nature of whistleblowing. Will it return to its original mission?

James Harkin, the director of the London-based Centre for Investigative Journalism, (said) “In retrospect, it’s striking that everything WikiLeaks published was true – no small feat in the era of “disinformation” – but the tragedy is that much of its energy and ethos has now passed to blowhards and conspiracy theorists. Perhaps, in the light of our tepid new involvements in the Middle East and Ukraine, we need a new WikiLeaks.”

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Ah, celebrating the freedom of a rapist who escaped charges by playing on his fame.

Fucking wild.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.cafe 1 points 6 days ago

Fake rape charges dropped by the person claiming it happened.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world -3 points 4 days ago

A proud moment for the leftwing everywhere. Downplaying rape to defend a russian spy.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.cafe 1 points 4 days ago

He was accused of rape never charged with it. Kind of like Biden was. So if we're holding that same standard up for assange you need to hold that same standard of rape for Biden

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah yeah OJ and Rittenhouse are innocent.

Stop pretending the justice system is infallible.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Don't pull a muscle reaching to defend a Russian asset accused of rape. But I'm curious what your next phase of rape apologia will be.

"It didn't happen", "it was only investigated and not charged (because he fled the country)", and now "well your guy was accused too" are all amazing choices lol, too bad they're paper thin excuses.

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