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by xapata 1118 days ago
The way to fight back is ubiquitous public monitoring of the state. We should understand that the state is always watching, but the state should also be aware that all its actions will be public knowledge.

Note the increased awareness brought by widely available cameras with immediate upload capability. The commenter above implied this is dystopian, but the opposite seems to have occurred -- as the public gains the capability to surveil the state, it constrains the state.
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handity 1118 days ago
WikiLeaks tried that, Assange is still in Belmarsh and the MSM is still largely allowing him to rot there.
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ncphil 1118 days ago
This is a good point. Of course anyone who thought the MSM, or print journalism, were in business to reveal the actual truth really needs to review their history. The worst part is that Julian (whether intentionally or not) probably made that sacrifice for nothing. At least here in the US most people don't know or care. That's a shame. And an embarrassment.
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xapata 1117 days ago
I was thinking of something more communal/distributed. WikiLeaks wanted centralization.
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handity 1117 days ago
I had a second part to my comment about how web3 was the answer, but the public have been largely convinced that it's synonymous with get rich quick schemes or a worse version of Twitter. Where is the next WikiLeaks?
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adrr 1118 days ago
He could just stop fighting the extradition unless there are concerns he wouldn’t get a fair trial in the US. I haven’t heard of such concerns and he could probably get a solid legal defense team with private donations.
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handity 1117 days ago
If he is extradited, 100% guaranteed he will not get a fair trial by any common definition of that term.
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adrr 1117 days ago
Can you point to any trial that wasn't fair in the US in recent history?
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bilalq 1116 days ago
I have no particular viewpoint regarding Assange, but depending on your understanding of "fair", there are probably many whose fairness can be questioned. Partiality of judges, imbalance of legal team budgets, etc. Look at any case brought up by a patent troll against a small/medium business.

One case that personally always bothers me was regarding the murder of Philando Castile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Philando_Castile#Tr...

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adrr 1116 days ago
I’ll narrow my statement down to fair for the defendant.
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