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posted by janrinok on Wednesday December 22 2021, @02:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the Assange dept.

[Editor's Note: This is how we received it. We are searching for anything else but the claim that Assange is (being) extradited is currently unsubstantiated.]

Assange is extradited to die in the US empire.
Wikileaks now puts EVERYTHING online in return.
https://file.wikileaks.org/file/?fbclid=IwAR2U_Evqah_Qy2wxNY12FMqFC5dAFUcZL5Kl4FIfQuMFMp8ssbM46oHXWMI


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 22 2021, @07:22PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 22 2021, @07:22PM (#1207189)

    He should have gone to Russia.

    The fact that Russia is the place to go to escape U.S. tyranny makes the U.S. look bad.

    The fact that Russia, and not the U.K., is the place to go to escape unjust extradition to U.S. tyranny also makes the U.K. look bad.

    Russia actually looks good in all this?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 22 2021, @07:34PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 22 2021, @07:34PM (#1207195) Journal

    Times do change. It's not happening in the near future, but China may one day be freer than the US/UK/Western world.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by NickM on Thursday December 23 2021, @01:13AM (1 child)

      by NickM (2867) on Thursday December 23 2021, @01:13AM (#1207280) Journal
      I don't see this happening in a positive way, China has a long tradition of bureaucratic top-down control and they are not marching toward more individuals freedom. For your statement to become true, the Western world must regress a lot.
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 23 2021, @03:03AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 23 2021, @03:03AM (#1207298)

        ...For your statement to become true, the Western world must regress a lot.

        That was Runaway's point.

  • (Score: 2) by number11 on Wednesday December 22 2021, @08:54PM

    by number11 (1170) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 22 2021, @08:54PM (#1207211)

    No, Russia doesn't look particularly good in all this. The fact that Russia will probably give you refuge if you've poked Uncle Sam in the eye with a stick (and not the Russian Bear) doesn't make it a great place. Just, sometimes, a better place than SuperMax. If Assange had also been publishing stuff re Russia, they'd have invited him to have a nice cup of tea, or maybe to enjoy the view from a 7th floor balcony.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 23 2021, @02:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 23 2021, @02:01PM (#1207410)

    More neutrally, Russia and China are the two main powers that resist U.S. influence. If you're going to make an escape from the grasp of the U.S., or set up your illegal piracy web site, you should probably gravitate towards their spheres of influence in Asia.