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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by tgv on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:21AM (#29509499)
It might have been partially activist, that still doesn't justify the extradition. The US had no standing, as I believe it's called. They can declare whatever they want "top secret", but that doesn't make a crime for a citizen of another country to publish it. The hacking and conspiracy claims have been added to make it appear as if they have standing, but these are empty. It's another triumph for big budget lawyer corporations, and an actual loss for the freedom of the press.
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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by bladegash on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:27AM (#29509557)
I do not think it is a loss for freedom of the press, I think it is an opportunity for the courts to define what a journalist actually is, vs. not. Perhaps the courts will side with Assange and we will find that this is First Amendment protected activity. I personally do not believe it is, but I do think that this situation is a bit unique to modern times and is likely to set precedent one way or the other.
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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by pydry on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:47AM (#29509764)
Russia also does this. Inconvenient journalists are designated "foreign agents", for instance.

Redefining journalist can let you imprison any and every journalist.

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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by bladegash on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:56AM (#29509848)
Sure, that could happen and be the result out of all this. I think that is jumping to the worst possible conclusion though and the result will be a bit more nuanced than that.
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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by pydry on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:06AM (#29509959)
If a Russian citizen exposed evidence that the Beslan massacre of schoolchildren was staged by the government and Putin tossed them in prison under an espionage law that explicitly criminalizes leaks, would you consider that situation "nuanced"?
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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by gdy on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:05PM (#29514054)
"Russia also does this. Inconvenient journalists are designated "foreign agents", for instance."

Inconvenient journalists financed from abroad. And "foreign agents" are not imprisoned, they just obligated by the law to remind their readers about this fact.

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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by tgv on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:25AM (#29510942)
I think it shows that you can put a lid on foreign journalism by drawing your chequebook. Just add a few indictments from the extradition agreement. The UK courts clearly haven't sided with Assange.
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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by ClumsyPilot on Friday December 10, 2021 @11:25AM (#29511729)
Zeems awfully convenient to label anything that embarrases the government as 'secret national security matter'. The government can literally get away with murder
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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by fallingknife on Friday December 10, 2021 @11:58AM (#29512160)
Why is it that there should be a legal class of "journalist" that has more rights than the rest of us?
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