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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Julian Assange tried to do that and he was nearly lynched for it.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And then blamed for ruining the 2016 American election.

Snowden showed the government was spying, had to flee, deemed a terrorist. Assange showed the government disobeys the laws it enforces on everyone else, deemed a terrorist. Manning showed that war crimes are constant, deemed a terrorist, subjected to inhumane torture.

Every time a whistleblower exposes corruption and violations of laws in every country, they are punished. China, Russia, America, England, they're all guilty of it.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Every time a whistleblower exposes corruption and violations of laws in every country, they are punished.

Typically by being accused of acting as foreign agents. Assange was a Radical Islamist under Bush, a nefarious Russia/China double agent under Obama, and an insidious Hispanic cartel boss under Trump.

[–] Synnr@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

I don't know why but I've got this strange tingling feeling it might just be a human nature group thing.