Re:Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
by hef19898 on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:41PM
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Especially since Kim Dotcom isn't an American citizen neither. So a third country citizen did something in another third country that the US didn't like. Quite a thing to aks for extradition in that case, especially from a country that doesn't recognize the court in The Hague.
Re:Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
by wolco2 on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:17PM
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The Assange witchcraft trails are still ahead. I wonder if Trump will do something like offering a parden.
Re:Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
by hef19898 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:41AM
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I am still not what to think about Assange. WikiLeaks did great things in the early days, and I was half convinced the affair in Sweden was a set-up. If it was not, Sweden would have been the place to put him on trial. And not to use it as am excuse to arrest in Britain to have him extradited to the US.
That being said, it seems WikiLeaks was at least complicit in Russia propaganda operations. And we have no way to tell whether that would have happened without the arrest. Complicated story. And still a trial I hate to see, if Assange gets convicted, there is no way to be sure that doesn't happen to other journalists as well.
Re:Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
by mschuster91 on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:19PM
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> I wonder if Trump will do something like offering a parden.
Probably one of the only ones that actually will be positive in intent.
Of course he has done wrong, but the fact why people are standing up for him is he did not do it while being in the US. It is one thing if the US asks for extradition of a criminal who committed the crime in the US, but an entirely different thing if the criminal committed the crime in another country - and that doesn't even answer the question if what the criminal did is actually a crime in that country.
It's already a legal stretch to arrest and punish pedophiles who fly out to Asia to rape children (because enforcing the laws against child rape should be something for the destination countries!), but the Dotcom and Assange sagas should not result in extradition.