[F6F6FA]

How can you have integrity of the justice system if you don't have integrity of facts?

What you call torture, is the isolation and lack-of-stimulus we put all prisoners through. This treatment is not specific to harass Assange, but Assange and his team wants special treatment specific to Assange.

Assange is different in many ways. A journalist normally does not convince a suicidal army recruit in Iraq to search the local network for more encrypted files he and his team can crack themselves. The only country to reward such behavior with a medal would maybe be Russia.

[shkkmo]

> What you call torture

It has been called torture by a large number of people, including Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. You can dispute the definition, but it has a strong basis in international law.

> A journalist normally does not convince a suicidal army recruit in Iraq to search the local network for more encrypted files he and his team can crack themselves.

Journalists do a wide variety of things, sometimes those things are unethical, that doesn't stop them from being journalists.

[q1w2]

Encouraging military personnel to search for and exfiltrate data goes WAY beyond what a normal journalist does.

Regardless of whether you think it's unethical - it's illegal.

[aunty_helen]

Dumbest comment of the internet today. You think the guys that published the watergate stories just said "hey give us what you got and we'll see what we can do with it?"

At best you're blatantly astroturfing. At least have the balls to stick your opinion to your account.