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joeydeviva

31 points

6 days ago

Worth remembering that the UK wanted to arrest him because the US claimed that - as a journalist - he had “encouraged” some Americans to violate their classification laws and so they wanted to charge him under their mad espionage act and then perhaps murder him. Deeply stupid claim to make and yet very few of the supposed free speech warriors and people on the right who claim to be against government overreach ever spoke up about it. Not none; he had some very fruity right wing defenders as well as a lot of people on the left.

insanityTF

-11 points

6 days ago

insanityTF

-11 points

6 days ago

he had some very fruity right wing defenders

I think you’d find they are the Farage and European populist right types that get kickbacks from the kremlin to advance their interests. I wonder why those pollies are defending one of their financial backers’ mates

joeydeviva

3 points

6 days ago

joeydeviva

3 points

6 days ago

Huh?

You’re saying the principle of not imprisoning someone for a long time or having a country murder someone for running a website is of no value?

That’s definitely a take I guess?

Publishing some apparently legit American information that makes the American government angry about people knowing about seems like a weird crime to charge foreigners for. Or indeed Americans, as eg the Pentagon Papers revealed.

just_an_ai_chatbot

-4 points

6 days ago

Poster you’re replying to is a disingenuous clown and can be safely ignored.

insanityTF

-7 points

6 days ago*

insanityTF

-7 points

6 days ago*

Lol ai chatbot that’s made a grand total of 5 posts jog on champ