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"During this time, the organization published internet censorship lists, leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources. The publications include revelations about drone strikes in Yemen, corruption across the Arab world, extrajudicial executions by Kenyan police, 2008 Tibetan unrest in China, and the "Petrogate" oil scandal in Peru. From its inception, the website had a significant impact on political news in a large number of countries and across a wide range of issues.

During this period WikiLeaks had only four permanent staff: Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and two others using pseudonyms. It had a far larger group of volunteers. Assange was the most powerful individual, as the editor-chief, but he relied upon networks of others with expertise.

From its inception, WikiLeaks sought to engage with the established professional media. It had good relations with parts of the German and British press. A collaboration with the Sunday Times journalist Jon Swain on a report on political killings in Kenya led to increased public recognition of the WikiLeaks' publication, and this collaboration won Assange the 2009 Amnesty International New Media Award."

He sounds like a Saint

His problem was then exposing the US, which didn't have a problem with him before. The US was fine with him uncovering corruption in Russian and Chinese backed coups, but then when he specifically targeted the US is when the witch-hunt started

That's called "telling the truth"

Just because you attempt to hide crimes doesn't mean people have no right to expose them, it's simply a matter of being upset someone found out

And like I said, the US doesn't even deny any of the leaks, so the only reason they want to persecute an innocent person is an overtly authoritarian show of force. If we're going to simply abandon our principles willy-nilly whenever we feel like it then we're not a democratic country

Assange is just a person who cares about freedom of the press, going on these red-scare witch-hunts is going to blow back in peoples faces sooner rather than later because we already went through this before

Also promoting countries that have worse human rights abuses than Russia is not a winning strategy, 20% of Germans now believe in far-right candidates, something that Germany hasn't seen since 1933, and that's a serious issue that needs to be addressed, not brushed under the rug

No offence, but Joe Rogaine was a moron from the start and his podcasts were always bottom of the barrel garbage

Trump voters would've been the Romans crucifying Jesus because he was "disrespecting Roman authority" at the time and being a nuisance.

Next step? They're already doing it. You don't need to be overtly racist to segregate communities fyi, income brackets and gerrymandering do a wonderful job at promoting racial segregation without the need to be outwardly bigoted

A lot of stereotypes are based on pure racism and general prejudice

Are you the only one? Yes

This is the end result of having libertarian techbros running the social media show and it doesn't look like it's going to be changing anytime soon

Ukraine literally had Nazi rallies out in the open and endorsed by the state

It's completely different

they even brought a flag to the Senate with an SS symbol on it

Assange isn't an American citizen, it's disturbing to see so many psychopaths out for blood for the simple crime of telling the truth, especially when he's not even a citizen of said country which sets a very disturbing precedent.

the US is falling into the trap Russia wants, and if we had intelligent leaders, they would drop the charges and move on from it. We know Afghanistan was a failure and we know why, it's not a mystery anymore and the US doesn't even deny any of the wikileaks accusations so this entire witch-hunt is just disturbing at this point and does nothing to give anyone any confidence in this country

So it wasn't the student, it was the kids PARENT that was offended

These people are mentally disturbed and they probably shouldn't be allowed to have kids

Rolling Stone is not a valid news source

Stealing Palestinian lands that the people didn't agree to give up is literally genocide

It was a German court apparently, according to the article

When I was a kid working retail I loved going out and returning the carts because it gets you outside and it sucks being stuck inside an entire shift

Your first point still makes no sense, it's a contradiction

Yeah idk either