The USA is to give the UK diplomatic “assurances” regarding Julian Assange's possible extradition. What to make of these? And what about Joe Biden's recent statements on Assange's home country Australia?
No worries, there’s a lot of narratives about assange being pushed around lately.
As I said originally, I don’t think he deserves to be put in a black box or anything. But I do believe he’s a self important ass, who is probably extremely unpleasant to be around.
Most of my opinions on him were formed around how he treated his original team at wikileaks. He did release information that needed to released, but the way the dude released the information was against the wishes of his very capable (at the time) team, who were highly (rightly) concerned about endangering their sources.
Hell, his original security architect stole their servers and destroyed them afterwards because Assange was constantly going rogue and ignoring security protocols.
Any “journalist” willing to endanger their sources or their opsec for headlines and personal glory isn’t a journalist imo.
No worries, there’s a lot of narratives about assange being pushed around lately.
As I said originally, I don’t think he deserves to be put in a black box or anything. But I do believe he’s a self important ass, who is probably extremely unpleasant to be around.
Most of my opinions on him were formed around how he treated his original team at wikileaks. He did release information that needed to released, but the way the dude released the information was against the wishes of his very capable (at the time) team, who were highly (rightly) concerned about endangering their sources.
Hell, his original security architect stole their servers and destroyed them afterwards because Assange was constantly going rogue and ignoring security protocols.
Any “journalist” willing to endanger their sources or their opsec for headlines and personal glory isn’t a journalist imo.
Yeah, I’m on broadly the same page as you. Human rights aren’t dependent on being a likeable person or even on lack of criminality.
I also think bad, reckless and immoral journalists are still journalists.