https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1805388007475732646

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    5 months ago

    The democratic west out there engaging in one of the longest and most dramatic repressions of a journalist in history.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    Absolutely disgusting how radlibs turned on him as soon as the media blamed Wikileaks for “aiding Russia”

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Amazing. He needs to move to a decent country and then write a book about the horror he experienced once he gets some psychological counseling for the PTSD. This man's a fucking hero.

  • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    I'm glad he's free but goddamn I don't think he's going to be straight for awhile, dude is really going to need some time to heal. Solitary confinement is torture and it's crazy how the prison system uses it with such ease.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    Incredible news.

    I don't think it can be understated just how much damage this man did to US credibility through wikileaks. I have no idea if he has the skillset he once had or the connections that enabled it but they incredible damage to the US and they hunted him relentlessly for it to set an example. And it worked flawlessly. Other outlets became considerably more on the side of the US in the aftermath of crackdowns on Assange and police raids of any news org that was publishing anything the US didn't like, the UK Guardian being an obvious famous example of this when the authorities raided them for Snowden's harddrives and forced them to take angle grinders to the drives while GCHQ operatives observed.

    I wonder what "negotiations" took place. Is he allowed to go back to journalism if he wanted to?

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    5 months ago

    Huh, was kinda never expecting to see the day.

    Obviously a very good thing he's free but it sucks he had to spend so long in such awful conditions, I imagine you'd never fully get over that sort of experience (real doomer hours from me tonight I guess).

  • RION [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    if I were him you would not catch my ass in any country with a US extradition treaty