Confused About Julian Assange? Read This

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    While there is truth in that piece, I don't think that we need it to confirm that journalism is dead in good old USA already especially when the press secretary calls them on it and the just keep going.
     
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    https://theintercept.com/2020/09/30/assange-extradition-cfaa-hacking/

    From the article:
    That’s it. That’s what the government’s entire computer crime case against Assange is based on: a brief discussion about cracking a password, which never actually happened, between a publisher and his source.
    ...and:
    Trump would like nothing more than to charge the New York Times itself, and individual journalists that reported that story, with felonies for conspiring with their source. This is why the precedent in Assange’s case is so important: If Assange loses, the Justice Department will have established new legal tactics with which to go after publishers for conspiring with their sources.

    I've come to support Donald Trump in important ways. I surprise myself over that. On this issue, though, I remain firmly in support of Julian Assange and press freedom.
     
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