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@cypherpunks What is it that people in the UK don't understand about 'indeterminate detention without charge'?
He was detained without charge for many years, but there are charges now: the US unsealed their 2018 indictment against him immediately after they coerced Ecuador into revoking his asylum in April 2019, and they added more charges a month later.
As the linked article explains, he is currently charged with 17 counts of espionage and 1 count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. He remains in His Majesty's Prison Belmarsh while fighting the US's extradition request.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Julian_Assange
If you actually read into his time at the Ecuadorian embassy, it's pretty easy to tell that the US didn't have to coerce them to kick him out. They went out on a limb for him and he repaid their kindness by being a brat. He literally couldn't be a decent human being if his life depended on it. He essentially got kicked out for installing spyware and listening devices into the embassy's private network.
I don't think he deserves to rot in prison forever, but he hasn't made defending his prior actions any easier with recent behavior. And we're getting to the point where his past actions as a journalist are being overshadowed by his recent political and private agitations.
Again, I don't think he deserves jail time, but I don't think he's a decent person, nor a decent journalist.
@TranscendentalEmpire @cypherpunks Put aside whatever crappy personality he might have and pay attention to the fact that someone is using him to make a hole for other people to go into.
Did you not read the part that I didn't think he belonged in prison? We can both acknowledge that the guy is an ass, and that he doesn't deserve to be locked in a hole forever.
Forcing people into an opinion of false dichotomy between devil/angel just aids his prosecutors. He surely isn't an angel, so what does that leave us to assume?