Criticism of the handling of a journalist is not the same as criticism of war crimes and black ops carried out by the government. Assange was imprisoned because he was exposing the lies, deceptions and horrible actions the US empire was (is, of course, too) carrying out. Good luck finding information about China massacring civilians when they invade a country with an army and steal their resources. A hint, it's not going to happen.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assange was imprisoned because he was exposing the lies, deceptions and horrible actions the US empire was (is, of course, too) carrying out.

Is that so? Then why do other journalistic outlets routinely get damning leaks without having legal action brought against them? Why is Assange the only example of a journalist prosecuted by the US that ever gets brought up?

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunis_Khatayer_Abbas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawed_Ahmad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_al-Hajj https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilal_Hussein_(photojournalist)

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! Please, do bring those people up instead of Assange.