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Re:Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lie... by josteink on Saturday October 09, 2021 @06:29PM (#28813918)
> I guess I don't really see the moral angle here, in one direction or the other. Why shouldn't an entity try to impose its understanding of law and ethics where it can afford to?

You’ll have a hell of a good time exercising this conviction when China starts doing the same.

They’re already doing it to immediate neighbouring countries and have started doing so in the US through basic means of capitalistic influence.

I mean. They think they’re right. Why shouldn’t they? Who cares about nations having so called “sovereign” laws? What does your 1st amendment rights mean when China thinks you shouldn’t have it?

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Re:Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lie... by asdfasgasdgasdg on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:12PM (#28814190)
> You’ll have a hell of a good time exercising this conviction when China starts doing the same.

It would be truly upsetting if that ever happened, but mainly because so many of China's laws are bad, not because of something inherent about national borders. Fortunately I doubt China will ever have the will to use its power to bother me.

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