• @AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    301 year ago

    That’s all true, but his original arrest and prosecution was still a politically-motivated attack on freedom of speech.

    • @SCB@lemmy.world
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      -11 year ago

      Imagine falling for Assange’s bullshit so hard that you think he’s a free speech absolutely and not someone who leaked specific things for a specific purpose and that purpose was undermining democracy.

      • @AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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        121 year ago

        Oh, he’s a vindictive partisan hypocrite whose interest in “freedom of speech” is purely self-serving. But when it comes to precedents and principles, we don’t get to apply them selectively to people we like or dislike.

      • HACKthePRISONS
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        31 year ago

        attacking the us war machine is noble. calling it an attack on democracy is dishonest

        • @SCB@lemmy.world
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          -21 year ago

          If I had that belief, I’d argue against the war machine then, rather than literally conspire to undermine a democracy by trying to sway public opinion in a dishonest way.

          Because those two things seem completely unrelated and one of them is really bad.