Comment on Julian Assange released from prison and has left UK, WikiLeaks says

Mountaineer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “If I was him, I’d keep my head down and try to get to know my kids.”

  Wouldn’t that just mean that the threats worked? The corrupt won?

  I mean, the point of whistleblowing is to do so in spite of the threat of punishment.

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  • Mountaineer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes, the threats worked and the corrupt won.

    Now he gets to see his kids.
    I’d choose that too.
    You can call it cowardice, I’d call it pragmatism.

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    • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m not calling anyone a coward.

      I’m just less sure it’s the end of anything.

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  • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    He plead guilty. The US has successfully convicted a foreign publisher under its Espionage Act. Assange, WikiLeaks and everyone on their side in this decades long struggle has ultimately lost.

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