[plandis]

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?

Edit: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1289641/downl...

[SpaceRaccoon]

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.

[plandis]

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.