Julian Assange Got What He Deserved

Re:Julian Assange Got What He Deserved by colejohnson66 on Friday April 12, 2019 @06:59PM (#19649794)

> Well, let's see, one of them went to Russia, the other didn't.

Ah, the old “Snowden fled to Russia” trope. That’s false. He was in Russia when the US canceled his passport. As a consequence of that, he was unable to leave Russia.

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Re:Julian Assange Got What He Deserved by votepaunchy on Friday April 12, 2019 @07:20PM (#19649912)

Assange was granted Ecuadorian citizenship. Since Snowden was destined for Ecuador he likely could have requested the same.

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Re:Julian Assange Got What He Deserved by Arnt on Saturday April 13, 2019 @04:12AM (#19651721)

And might well have been granted it. But he couldn't teleport there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident

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Re:Julian Assange Got What He Deserved by jbharter on Friday April 12, 2019 @07:10PM (#19649856)

I've heard this too, looking for reputable source....

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Re:Julian Assange Got What He Deserved by blihp on Friday April 12, 2019 @07:17PM (#19649902)

It was a very, very, very well covered story at the time: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/24/edward-... (if you don't like USA Today, which was just the top news source listed in my search results, just poke around for 'snowden airport' around the same time period in your preferred news outlet's archives)

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Re:Julian Assange Got What He Deserved by jbharter on Friday April 12, 2019 @07:25PM (#19649935)

Thanks, I was younger and not as interested in world news at the time.

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