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‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sounds like they got what they needed from him

[–] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 years ago

Instilled fear in potential future whistleblowers.

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What do you mean?

[–] zik@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too.

[–] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

He pleaded guilty and agreed to delete "secret documents", whatever the hell that would be, as part of the deal