Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing

Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext... by DagAgren on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:19AM (#22355393)

True. But it also does not make him a good person, or worthy of support. He very deliberately turned Wikileaks into a propaganda tool for Russia. And their motives are no more pure than those of the US.

He has done massive damage by allowing his organisation to be used to promote the oppression and cruelty of the Trump regime, and he has throughly poisoned the waters for anyone else wanting to leak information.

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Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext... by SteveSmith16384 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:12AM (#22355740)

"it also does not make him a good person, or worthy of support."

What's that got to do with anything? How about just upholding the rule of law? Justice isn't supposed to be a popularity contest.

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Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext... by DagAgren on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:18AM (#22355789)

What law is not being upheld?

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Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext... by black_puppydog on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @05:49PM (#22361243)

As I said in cousin comment: his access to lawyers, right now. For starters.

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Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext... by boomboomsubban on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:43AM (#22355546)

>He very deliberately turned Wikileaks into a propaganda tool for Russia. And their motives are no more pure than those of the US.

Though I don't agree with this statement, that is not a crime and not what he is being charged with.

>He has done massive damage by allowing his organisation to be used to promote the oppression and cruelty of the Trump regime, and he has throughly poisoned the waters for anyone else wanting to leak information

I agree, seeing Assange get tortured for 8 years probably has caused people to become less willing to publish leaks. I don't see how you can blame the person undergoing such treatment for trying to escape it.

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Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext... by DagAgren on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:46AM (#22355563)

> Though I don't agree with this statement, that is not a crime and not what he is being charged with.

I am not interested in what is legal, I am interested in what is moral.

> I agree, seeing Assange get tortured for 8 years

Assange tortured himself for 8 years. He was free to walk out the door every hour of every day of those eight years.

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