• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I’m not making wild claims. It’s widely known Assange was jailed for exposing the US killing journalists, and that the US has helped Israel kill over 200 journalists in the past two years.

      You’re making a new claim.

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        2 days ago

        That’s a blatant lie. I can find no references anywhere to Assange exposing the killing of US journalists. He released files proving warrantless surveillance of US citizens. Post a link proving what you say.

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          2 days ago

          No, sea lion. If you’re an actual human, you are perfectly capable of searching for Collateral Murder, one of the most significant releases in the history of journalism.

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              2 days ago

              No, not at all. Julian Assange was imprisoned for releasing that proof of the US killing journalists.

              You wanna go through the hindreds of other journalists that have been imprisoned/killed by the US? Let’s start with the 230+ journalists they helped kill in Gaza.

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                Assange was jailed for obtaining and disclosing of classified documents stolen by Chelsea Manning. Saying anything else is a lie.

                You keep defending China by deflecting onto the US. It’s pretty obvious.

                China jails and kills journalists domestically for long sentences explicitly for speaking against the government. The US does not do this, not even Trump.

                Yes, the US has accidentally killed journalists through collateral damage in war zones. It’s shitty and a problem, but it is blatant bad faith to equate this to China’s direct persecution of journalists.

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                  17 hours ago

                  …and the documents Manning provided were proof of the US killing journalists. Assange broke no laws by accepting those documents, given he’s a journalist and not subject to US laws in the first place.

                  The US has been censoring and jailing journalists for years. Still do.

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                    14 hours ago

                    Proof the US killed 2 journalists accidentally. You claimed the docs proved the US killed more than a hundred intentionally which was a lie.

                    In 2024 Assange plead guilty to a charge of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defence documents under the Espionage Act of 1917. He was sentenced to time served (62 months). Again, you lied.

                    But let’s say I agree with your premise that Assange is an example of what you claim. That is one journalist. I provided names of more than a hundred arrested, tried, and jailed by China. Can you do the same for the US?