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Re:The world must not accept the jailing of Alexei Navalny by SpaceRaccoon on Friday January 22, 2021 @10:15AM (#25872302)
I'm not convinced Assange is innocent of that, I don't think it should be a crime. A lot of Navalny's anti-corruption work involved hacking and "stealing" the emails of corrupt politicians. Do you have a problem with that, too? Manning's "theft" of secret files exposed crimes of the US government to the people.
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Re:The world must not accept the jailing of Alexei Navalny by plandis on Saturday January 23, 2021 @11:54AM (#25883813)
I see it the same as robbing billionaire and giving half the proceeds to poor people. Just because you’ve done some good doesn’t absolve you of wrongdoing.

If we look at the Wikileaks case, Assange decided to release tens of thousands of documents without redacting the names of people, explicitly putting those individuals in harms way.

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