Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all... by mc32 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @01:25AM (#40784786)

I hope he does something on X where he delivers dead drops given to him by whistleblowers on an episodal basis, and he grows big enough that he become _the_ place to go when you want to blow the whistle, whether it be rushed pharmaceuticals, govt morally dubious black ops, bad NGOs, front orgs, etc.

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Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all... by mcmcmc on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @03:31AM (#40785547)

As soon as a whistleblower from one of Musk’s companies shows up you can guarantee he would get permabanned

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Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all... by alt227 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @05:15AM (#40786232)

Speech is free unless you are telling people where Elons jet is.

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Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all... by robxorb on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @08:19AM (#40787604)

What's particularly silly about all that is it's actually Elons jet telling people where it is.

That's how aviation stays safe: the planes broadcast where they are, to anyone and everyone who tunes in to that public signal.

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Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all... by mc32 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @01:07PM (#40790960)

X covers one spectrum and CNN covers another spectrum.

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Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all... by keepamovin on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:46AM (#40846940)

Agreed. Musk’s free speech is an intuition based on perspective

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Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all... by ted_bunny on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @01:41AM (#40784895)

That sure was the dream, wasn't it?

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Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all... by zztop44 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @01:35AM (#40784854)

Is this a joke? If so I don’t get it. You’re describing Wikileaks.

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Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all... by mc32 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @01:44AM (#40784909)

With a personality and context, with guests to discuss. Wikileaks was dry and left up to other journalists to write stories.

Few journalists would do that today because most now toe the main line -or they think it’ll give the “other guy” cover. No one bucks the incumbents these days. See anyone criticizing any western government actions these days? It’s not like there isn’t any fodder.

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Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all... by Symbiote on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @02:43AM (#40785231)

This is an idiotic statement. The governments I'm most familiar with are criticised daily.

The most recent: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jun...

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Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all... by lukan on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @03:44AM (#40785622)

'When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3.'

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., all... by dns_snek on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @06:11AM (#40786580)

All of this is petty criticism, it makes headlines one day and it's gone the next. You're allowed to say anything as long as it doesn't threaten to effect real change, you're allowed to protest as long as you do it at a scheduled time and place without seriously inconveniencing anyone, and you're allowed to expose crimes as long as they don't pose a serious threat to the institutions or people in power. It gives us an illusion of freedom of speech for the 99.9% while the heavy hitters are taken care of through persecution, false prosecution, torture, and occasional murder.

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