Related:
Watch: The Belmarsh Tribunal on Julian Assange, Press Freedom https://www.democracynow.org/live/watch_live_the_belmarsh_tribunal_on
An article over a year old isn’t “news”…
Thanks. I was about to unleash a “too little too late “ rant.
Until the US drops the charges it’s relevant to Julian’s imminent extradition from the UK. Was it posted here when it was published? It might be news to some. Where do you suggest I post it instead?
Probably a community that isn’t about recent events?
Somewhere where people are more sympathetic to Russian assets
While I’m glad this post did so well, I do apologies to anyone I may have offended by posting a barely 1yr old article in a news community. Please let me explain. My understanding is that news is information about current events. The letter written by the editors and publishers of: The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, El País, which were WikiLeaks’ media partners, attempts to protect investigative journalism as an institution, which is still threatened by the persecution of Julian Assange is a current event: in fact, now is a critical moment, with his last-gasp UK appeal in the extradition-fight set for 2 months from now. When an event happens in slow-motion, such as this slow-motion torture-to-death, we have to widen our field of vision to get a clear picture of what’s going on. If you want more recent criticism of the case by prominent journalists, the US just had another Belmarsh Tribunal. I posted about it here: https://aussie.zone/post/5092162
Title is a pretty dumb take.
Publishing is not a crime, which is correct.
I cannot be charged with a crime for making posts on Reddit, Lemmy or wiki pages. (I absolutely can be charged by publishing to wiki leaks though under agreements)
Publishing classified information is treason under Title 18 of the U.S. Code, Section 798
This is just stupidly obvious.
The only good thing he did was bring to focus the problem with over classification of information. We now have Controlled Unclassified Information thanks to that.
I am on the fence on this one. Personally I don’t think he should be charged as he was somewhat discriminating. That being said, people more support him because he published stuff that made the US look bad.
But to put this different. If all our personal health records were stolen, would people be fine if Fox or CNN were given a copy and they published it? Likely not.
Lastly he really is a guy that is hard to like. But that shouldn’t factor.
