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‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US (www.aljazeera.com)

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[-] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 49 points 5 months ago

Are you thinking of Snowden?

[-] filister@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

But it's sad that whistleblowers are even persecuted in a so-called democracy. Like you know you fucked up, but instead of feeling humble and ashamed you start persecutions of the people who have exposed you, while preaching what an exemplary democracy you are to the rest of the world.

Same with ICC, ICC exposes your ally as a war criminal and instead of upholding law, you start thinking how to sanction the judges and obstruct their actions, because you feel above the law. The US is acting like a school bully who is the only one who can say what's right or wrong in big parts of the rest of the world, they try to influence foreign governments and install their own candidates, so in a way, they aren't much better than China or Russia. Heck they even tapped the phones of their allies back then and probably still do.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

Private companies do the same, often going as far as to have whistleblowers executed. People (and especially organizations) protect their interests, even (or especially) at the expenses of others lives.

[-] Chakravanti@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

You know, that whole issue is now just completely way up in the air. The man in question had no difficulty saying the same. If you think you have any proof, feel free to bring that down to land as hard and as destructively murderous as you'd like to be.