Assange to plead guilty to one charge of espionage and return home to Australia after decades fighting US extradition.
  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    18 days ago

    Making sure he pleads guilty to something that isn’t a crime equals America not having freedom of speech.

    • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      132·
      17 days ago

      With everything that’s going on in the world, I feel like “freedom of speech” doesn’t exist. It’s just a “buzz”.

      Just to name a few things;

      • You want to criticize Israel? Antisemitism!
      • You want to criticize US-related Israel things? Antisemitism!
      • You want to provide evidence of crimes? That’s a ‘crime’!
      • You are against killing innocent people? Antisemitism!
      • You want to protest? You disrupt the order and therefore a crime!

      Perhaps it is just me being pessimistic.

    • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      Worse, it validates the precedent that non-U.S.-citizens can be prosecuted for breaking U.S. law over things they did outside of the U.S.

      Really happy that Assange gets to go home, since he’s suffered enough personally, but I really don’t like the precedent that I can be prosecuted in, say, Israel under Israeli law for things that I did in Wisconsin (e.g. boycotting).