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Assanage didn't really do shit except burn intelligence assets and expose a few war crimes (chain of command working as intended).
It was common knowledge that the alphabets were collecting data on people in legally gray ways. Now, even the more r-slurred elements of society are aware because it's a juicy mainstream news story and was such a hit he got added to the lore of the MSM Universe (I remember him coming up a lot in the 2016 election cycle).
Marketing tools of today are exponentially more invasive and common than anything the NSA was running back then.
I wonder what kind of cool cyberstalking programs the feds are running now. Lord knows we haven't received any legislation to protect digital privacy.
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I'm not sure when people started saying this but you were absolutely called a !schizos if you were saying “the government does warrantless wiretaps on all internet traffic at the ISP level”.
Isn't that Snowden though? I thought Assange was the Wikileaks / war crimes guy.
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Because it's cope by those people. First it was 'they would never do it' and now it is 'they're doing it but others do it too and also you can't escape it' as per G-PIGs comment
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Snowden leaked the illegal wiretaps, that guy is rlsurred.
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And if Mr. ISP refuses, like the CEO of Qwest, mysterious "financial crimes" occur and it's a weirdly open-and-shut prosecution of a C-level executive, with the justice system suddenly becoming very 1-tier
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bullshit
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If all he did was receive and distribute classified information he'd have legitimate 1st amendment claims. But he actively participated by encouraging and even helping manning illegally access the documents. I'm not sure of the details of his charges but he was absolutely an accessory to at least the charges involving manning
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he ruined the plans of some incredibly powerful people. all the accusations against him and the charges against him are all trumped up bullshit.
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Lol. Lmao even.
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t. psyop victim
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Sounds keyed, why do we hate him?
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The "war crime" wasn't even a war crime. It was a miscommunication. A new crew didn't properly notify US forces they were in an area of insurgent hotbed activity, they showed up in a convoy, started unloading camera equipment and setting it up, which looks a lot like an ATGM or recoilless rifle from a thermal camera, and got obliterated by Apaches floating around looking for exactly that sort of behavior. People got pissy because the Apache crews were stoked (duh- they get to fly sweet helicopters and smoke bad guys, they obviously are stoked on doing what they thought was their job).
Yes, it's messy, but the whole >muh war crimes shtick that soft libs get on whenever a western country engages in conflict is tiresome. War crimes are deliberately targeting civilians independent of military value, killing prisoners, committing reprisals, and other actual heinous crimes that do happen, and are given cover by calling anything distasteful that happens in war a "war crime" by delegitimizing the term.
Then of course, those same anti-American tankies bend over backwards to explain why Russia executing and torturing people, or Hamas' r*pe and murder spree are totally legitimate, when those are actual, organizationally-sanctioned war crimes, not mistaken identity.
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Jesse what the frick are you talking about??
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the "war crime" was ca 0.01% of all the interesting stuff wikileaks published.
but it made americans feel some kinda way so they're obsessed with it and forget about the other 99.99%.
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NOOOO he's just a heckin journorino, he's just reporting
50% of the people defending Assange are confusing him with Snowden
The other 50% are either r-slurred or just seething thirdies
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NOOOO HE BROKE THE HECKING RULES WHILE EXPOSING ANTI-HUMAN LIZARD BIPOCS
We can't defend him from a legal standpoint because he offended the people that decides what's legal. Legality is just meaningless noise when it comes to the specific subject of fricking with the operators of legalism and their pawns.
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It said on this piece of paper, that is classified btw, that I could shoot all of these unarmed people. Ergo ipsum its bad to expose it. Yes I do love deep state peepee, why u ask?
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I checked and apparently he's been in a high security prison on the edge of London for the last 5yrs and will remain there
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A small victory but a victory nonetheless
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why can't we just seal team 6 him
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They had plans to assassinate him but it didn't work out for whatever reason.
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What is it about Apple that makes chuds seethe so much? Is it envy?
To add more salt in the wounds of these chuds… did Apple just BTFO all the chud's iToddler bullshit?
How do (You) refute all these arguments? They literally actually have the brain to back their arguments up instead of the chud "iTODDLER" + red hair tranime pics.
Actually refute these arguments… I'll wait.
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Snowden and Assange are legit just useful idiot Russian assets and have probably done much more harm than good to the human condition around the world.
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i didn't know we had so many utter retards on this website
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The frick is Russia gonna do with them? They can't even invade ukraine.
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free my neighbor assange
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