Re:Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits l...
by ineedasername on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:34PM
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Where are the protests? Where is the outrage? Do most Americans even know who Julian Assange is
Most American's probably don't actually know much about him. They may have encountered a few stories over the years-- in many cases just the headlines.
There wouldn't be outrage & protests for a few reasons:
1) The news stories people have read would frequently have been about him helping hack US computers, often with the added context of his rape prosecution, so there wouldn't be a lot of automatic sympathy.
2) The testimony retraction is only a few days old, so not much time to get upset especially without greater media coverage.
3) The story is basically "Witness lies to FBI". People aren't going to take to the streets over that. If the DoJ still go after Assange, that would be worse, but I still don't think we'd see much protesting for 1 more main reason:
4) Americans have more than enough sources of outrage much closer to home. If something is going to overcome Americans' "outrage fatique", it isn't going to be recanted testimony in the prosecution of a supposed co-conspirator for an incident that occurred over 10 years ago. It's not even an issue of partisan politics: Whether you're to the right or the left, you probably have more immediate things to be angry about than this.
Most American's probably don't actually know much about him. They may have encountered a few stories over the years-- in many cases just the headlines.
There wouldn't be outrage & protests for a few reasons:
1) The news stories people have read would frequently have been about him helping hack US computers, often with the added context of his rape prosecution, so there wouldn't be a lot of automatic sympathy.
2) The testimony retraction is only a few days old, so not much time to get upset especially without greater media coverage.
3) The story is basically "Witness lies to FBI". People aren't going to take to the streets over that. If the DoJ still go after Assange, that would be worse, but I still don't think we'd see much protesting for 1 more main reason:
4) Americans have more than enough sources of outrage much closer to home. If something is going to overcome Americans' "outrage fatique", it isn't going to be recanted testimony in the prosecution of a supposed co-conspirator for an incident that occurred over 10 years ago. It's not even an issue of partisan politics: Whether you're to the right or the left, you probably have more immediate things to be angry about than this.