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He avoided prosecution of three credible separate sexual abuse allegations by hiding in a non-extraditing country for seven years.

He's also not a whistleblower.

Julian Assange did not leak anything. He's not a whistleblower or a leaker. He's a publisher, a hacker, and an activist.

I hate that he is pulled into these conversations, especially aligned with Snowden

I don't think handmaiden’s tale was a moral society. Hanging women on walls and raping them doesn't seem very moral. Oppression through purity propaganda more descriptive. A moral society wouldn't be oppressive and murderous.

in the US it's flawed because you end up with a police state and only the state is armed and the party that did it is anti-police

the media labels them whistleblowers though so doesn't it?

Frances Haugen did it pretty successfully and all turned out to be nothing

Ashley Gjovik's motive is $$, but so far nothing but the email from the CEO from months after she was fired [https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/01/nlrb_apple_labor_laws...]

[https://github.com/justiceatapple/Apple-Retaliation/blob/mai...] "my price is enough money to launch my human rights firm next to a beach house in Kona"

huge net with a disappointing catch, hopefully consulting is going well for her [https://github.com/justiceatapple/Apple-Retaliation/blob/mai...] [https://github.com/justiceatapple/Apple-Retaliation/blob/mai...]