Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues

Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by username444 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:04PM (#19995930)

Which is irrelevant, because they'd manufacture some other charge to get him on.

Every single person on the entire planet can be charged with dozens of things by a u.s. prosecutor with enough time and incentive. That's how the laws are designed. If they want you, they _will_ get you.

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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by mcv on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:28PM (#19996182)

But those are not things that Sweden would extradite him for. They'd lock him up for rape, yes, but not extradite him to the US.

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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by username444 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @07:40PM (#19997101)

Mail fraud, wire fraud, intellectual property theft, copyright infringement/piracy, subpeonas, a law from 1806 about people with white hair, i-dont-like-your-face, etc.

My point isn't so much that this one specific violation wouldn't qualify for extradition. It's that the laws are so intentionally vague and broad and numerous that they can be interpreted in such a way to charge _anybody_ with _something_ if they want to.

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