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by pippy 2311 days ago
It's because their actions exposed illegal activities that various governments were partaking in. The same organizations which define what a criminal is, and are supposed to be held accountable to the people. Having people that are above the law is of course a dangerous precedent. To boil down to a stupid thought experiment, why should Assange or Snowden be prosecuted when the people who they exposed blatantly exposed breaking the law were not?