zephyreks@lemmy.mlM to World News@lemmy.ml • 3 months ago‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with USexternal-linkmessage-square12 fedilinkarrow-up1159
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minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion [he/him]hexbear25·3 months ago some petty bullshit making him plead guilty to espionage but link
minus-squareRooskie91@discuss.onlinehexbear19·3 months agoAmerica, after spending an insane level of resources and decades of man power to make someone say a phrase: HA! GOT EM! linkfedilink
minus-squareSoyViking [he/him]hexbear12·3 months agoEverybody will know that this is a forced confession anyways so who cares? link
minus-squareunwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.mlhexbear8·3 months agoIt does set a potentially dangerous precedent, but with how things are going (American newspapers declining in quality and SCOTUS selectively ignoring precedent and doing whatever), you're right that it doesn't mean much. linkfedilink
some petty bullshit making him plead guilty to espionage but
America, after spending an insane level of resources and decades of man power to make someone say a phrase: HA! GOT EM!
Everybody will know that this is a forced confession anyways so who cares?
It does set a potentially dangerous precedent, but with how things are going (American newspapers declining in quality and SCOTUS selectively ignoring precedent and doing whatever), you're right that it doesn't mean much.