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Re:Amnesty International denied access to court in the Assan... by btilly on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @12:27PM (#24494218)
Of my list of assholes above, I think Assange is the only asshole with no evidence to suggest his actions have actually killed anyone at all.

Actually there is evidence that his actions started a number of civil wars. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing depends on your perspective, but certainly it lead to dead people.

See https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikileaks-how-the-diplomatic-c... for more.

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Re:Amnesty International denied access to court in the Assan... by acqq on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:36PM (#24495845)
I don't see that the linked article or the one linked from there to support their claim (1) provide support for the claims you state.

1) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-tuni...

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Re:Amnesty International denied access to court in the Assan... by btilly on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:06PM (#24498548)
His actions were far from the sole cause, but they certainly contributed. The chain of causality being that he created Wikileaks and solicited releases of confidential US information. The confidential US cables then became public. The information in those cables helped start civil wars.

This may seem tenuous, but it was pretty much what he was hoping for. http://web.archive.org/web/20070129125831/http://iq.org/cons... describes what Assange hoped Wikileaks would accomplish before it had accomplished anything. Said purpose was to make it harder to maintain authoritarian conspiracies.

Given that, the fact that his actions caused trouble for authoritarian conspiracies in the Middle-East is an intended consequence.

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