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U.K. Judge OKs Extradition of Julian Assange to U.S.
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Most "journalists" are at zero risk because they just parrot what their governments say.
Reading through the indictment, I think a lot of the fury is because Assange didn't redact vulnerable sources, and when confronted had a very callous attitude about threats to the life or liberty of people who were mentioned. A responsible journalist would redact information like that to protect them from reprisals. Like, there are plenty of journalists that criticize the government in the West and receive leaks, but they're not having the US government chasing them across the Atlantic.
Not yet they're not. Wait until a legal precedent is set with Assange (too many have been already) and any journalist the government doesn't like the look of can be locked away or worse.
Whichever way you look at it, exposing sources in an unethical way just doesn't warrant the treatment Assange has gotten nor the threat of three lifetimes in prison. This isn't about that, nor is this isn't about a really stretched charge of hacking, it's about showing anti-imperialist and anti-war journalists and whistleblowers who's in charge.