As much as i think this is a bad thing i do find it a bit funny. The ''champion'' of free speech is planning to flee to a country that has none!

Chris12 wrote:The ''champion'' of free speech is planning to flee to a country that has none!
Chris12 wrote:It could just turn out to be jailtime instead. But the Us aren't pissed at Assange because of free speech. they are mad because assange's ''free speech'' involves letting other hack clasified and probably important documents so his site can post them for all to see. There's a difference between free speech and criminal actions.
the other one wrote:Chris12 wrote:It could just turn out to be jailtime instead. But the Us aren't pissed at Assange because of free speech. they are mad because assange's ''free speech'' involves letting other hack clasified and probably important documents so his site can post them for all to see. There's a difference between free speech and criminal actions.
So you don't even know what kind of ducuments he made public?
So you think, that nobody is allowed to know, that the war in Iraq is based on lies? And also nobody should know about criminal acts of the government?
At least in a democracy should every citizen know, what the government is doing. The USA call them self a democracy, so their citizen need to have transparence about the politic. And Assange is trying to get that transparency.
Chris12 wrote:
Uh, the whole thing being basen on lies has been common knowledge for a long time. Assange had nothing to do with people figuring that out. The fact that the goverment is also performing those act in Iraq is also common knowledge, its a war! everyone who needed wikileaks to figure that out has been living in a fairy tale. Goverments will always keep secrets from the public. They have always done so and will keep doing that for as long as there are governments to begin with and i don't mind at all because a goverment that shares everything they did with everyone doesn't work. We don't need to know everything they do! And in this case the wrongs Assange is exposing have a real chance to whipe away the good things we did in Iraq. Assange just reeks of both short sightedness and self righteousness.
Even if Assange had a point, hacking clasified documents and showing them to everyone is against the law no matter whether you think it should or shouldn't be.
And, some docoments he revealed some to be just there to troll the goverments. There are multiple leaks about things like ambassador from country A telling the ambassador from country B he thinks the ambassador from country C is a freak. What is the point in that? is messing up the relationship between countries part of his big mission?