Yeah, the statute of limitations ran out. Says a lot about our society if publishing publicly funded data has stricter penalties than raping 3 women. Either way the guy is a shit stain rapist and idgaf what happens to him. I'll save my sympathy for Snowden and Manning who haven't raped anyone.

[–] seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de 15 points 9 months ago

He should go to prison if he's guilty of rape, he should definitely not go to prison for Wikileaks.

[–] 520@kbin.social 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I give a fuck about what happens to him because he's being punished as a journalist, not as a rapist.

If you think this will stop at journalists who happen to be rapists, you are sorely mistaken. At this point we're basically legalising treatment not that far from Kashoggi for journalists who handle military leaks, even the responsible, non-rapey ones.

[+] Shalakushka@kbin.social -13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

if we punish rapists for rape, good luck finding any non rapist journalists!!!

Just fucking unhinged

[–] 520@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes, that would be an unhinged take. Good thing that it's also nothing close to what I wrote. Try actually reading what you reply to and not strawmanning.

I literally said that they're not punishing him for rape. What they do to him now will be what they do to all journalists publishing things the military doesn't like.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I love the way you twist other peoples' words. Very masterful.

[–] 520@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

I honestly have no idea what kind of aneurysm it takes to draw that from what I wrote

[–] sudneo@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He has not been sentenced already, I hope you know that. I hope you also know the effort that he and his team made to have the trial been done where he was de-facto prisoner, but also the completely lack of flexibility from those who wanted him to simply step out of the embassy to arrest and extradite him.

The timeline and the events are very well narrated in Stefania Maurizi's book. It's almost gross how much the rape accusations have been used to try to get to him and how poorly both British and Swedish authorities behaved, probably obeying to the US (colonial power much).

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

sweden is well known for bowing to US requests. just look at the history of the unlawful attacks on the piratebay and the sham court they were passed through to get sentenced on no broken laws.

not to mention Sweden's constant bullshit in other data related sectors pushing american (hollywood) agendas into EU (and thankfully failing). the pay to take action against the will of the people IN A DEMOCRACY must be the recipe for immortality or some such because i don't see why they would otherwise be able to legally betray their countrymen.

[–] ralphio@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Let's be even more specific. Sweden has a history of looking the other way on US extraordinary rendition:

https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/post-9-11-renditions-an-extraordinary-violation-of-international-law/

The men were later subjected to torture.