What astounds me are the liberals who rightfully call for Navalny's freedom but defend prosecuting Assange and Snowden. Hypocrisy seems to be a consistent feature of politics.
Assange is charged with helping Manning with decrypting stolen files and offering advice on how to best cover her tracks among other things according to the DOJ indictment. Why are you so convinced of his innocence? Do you have information that definitively refutes all of those charges?
I'm not convinced Assange is innocent of that, I don't think it should be a crime. A lot of Navalny's anti-corruption work involved hacking and "stealing" the emails of corrupt politicians. Do you have a problem with that, too? Manning's "theft" of secret files exposed crimes of the US government to the people.
I see it the same as robbing billionaire and giving half the proceeds to poor people. Just because you’ve done some good doesn’t absolve you of wrongdoing.
If we look at the Wikileaks case, Assange decided to release tens of thousands of documents without redacting the names of people, explicitly putting those individuals in harms way.
What astounds me are the people on Hacker News who cry about free speech over Parler yet are silent when Russia jails someone for being in an opposition party, a TRUE violation of free speech.
"I believe that President Trump's Twitter ban is an unacceptable act of censorship." - Alexey Navalny //twitter.com/navalny/status/1347959515946360833?s=19
I have never been silent about Navalny. He is clearly a political prisoner. However it is important to be consistent, and not only be a critic when it's your adversaries commiting a fault.
Came here to write this. Hypocrisy is not a feature politics alone, it does seem to be liberals mandate as sad as it sounds.
And if we look deeper, comparing useless CIA-funded clown with people who shed light to atrocities performed by government and military complex and paid with their own life (treatment that Assange got all those years are not even remotely humane) for it, is an incredible stretch, to put it mildly.