The man can’t be some free speech martyr while picking and choosing what docs to publish from which nation. It’s all, nothing, or you’re a state asset, witting or not. To figure out what state that might be, look no further than the leaks he made every excuse not to publish.
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stoy@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Oh yeah, this dickhead is still around…
To be clear, I believe in his mission, but not in him nor his methods
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Me neither but i also cant really blame him for trying to survive.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There wouldn’t be a need for his methods if our government wasn’t constantly doing the dirty
nicocool84@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I believe most of the bad things he was accused of turned out to be FUD, Kompromat and defamation.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I am not talking about that, I am talking about how he staged the releases of leaks, he did it more to keep WL in the spotlight than to give focus on the leaks themselves.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 year ago
In that case, good point.