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Re:We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. Yo... by anondon on Saturday October 22, 2016 @05:03AM (#12767927)
If what Assange and team are going through is any indication, the US Government has set a dangerous precedent in how it deals with people who go against the establishment, exposing it. They spin a narrative saying he broke certain laws, which is true, but doesn't explain how hard they are hitting Assange with behind the scenes activities to extradite him to the USA. The real motivation is to get back at Assange for publicly shaming the US Government on the world stage with various leaks.

> What will replace wikileaks?

Nothing, at least anytime soon. If wikileaks sticks to it's mission of opening Governments without the negative associations, as you said, that would suffice.

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Re:We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. Yo... by pmorici on Saturday October 22, 2016 @06:01AM (#12768073)
https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/587lbg/i_have_be...

It's looking like the latest allegations against him of pedophilia were totally false and fabricated by supporters of the Clinton campaign.

Edit: the above link doesn't spell it out but the the toddandclare.com website it is talking about is allegedly a totally fake dating site that submitted a false report to the Bahamanian police and issued a fake report that they tried to pass off as being written by the UN. That reddit post is describing how they think the fake dating site is linked to a private intelligence company.

http://www.snopes.com/2016/10/19/ecuador-cut-off-julian-assa...

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/17/1583749/-Julian-As...

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Re:We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. Yo... by makomk on Saturday October 22, 2016 @09:41AM (#12768630)
It's not clear who fabricated the claims, but they definitely took advantage of Clinton supporters' willingness to spread dubious attacks on her enemies and their tendency to go after anyone who questions them. I mean, a dating site claiming to be UN members and that the UN is conspiring against them is way out there in nutty conspiracy-theory land, but if you look at the comments on say the Daily Kos article about this people didn't just go along with their claims, they even accused people questioning them on places like Twitter of all kinds of nasty things.
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Re:We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. Yo... by pmorici on Saturday October 22, 2016 @10:02AM (#12768708)
It's pretty clear from the Snopes article that the claims originated from the fake dating website.
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Re:We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. Yo... by onlycommenting on Saturday October 22, 2016 @07:10AM (#12768247)
That's not what it looks like at all...
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Re:We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. Yo... by rys on Saturday October 22, 2016 @07:25AM (#12768278)
Can you explain what you think it does look like? As a layperson, it's hard to know where the truth lies.
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Re:We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. Yo... by lern_too_spel on Saturday October 22, 2016 @11:42AM (#12769116)
There is no evidence that Assange's internet access was cut off due to pedophilia charges. The origin of this story has admitted that the evidence was fabricated. http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/17/1583749/-Julian-Assan...
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