US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave threat to a free media

Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by Miner49er on Thursday June 13, 2019 @09:13AM (#20174477)

True, many leftist news organizations have been consistently defending him and calling this out as an attack on free speech. For example, the Intercept, Democracy Now, Jacobin, etc.

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Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by pessimizer on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:12AM (#20175018)

But that's the marginal class-based left; the liberal left, meaning the ones with any sort of power (e.g. Democratic Party, the Guardian, WaPo, NYT, etc...) generally have a history of condemning him while sometimes at the same moment profiting from publishing his leaks.

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Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by Miner49er on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:15AM (#20175052)

This is true. Words matter, if OP meant liberals they should've said liberals, not "the left".

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