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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
Oh wow, so a man that 75% of governments want dead did something bad? How odd! He seems to have done something that might create the potential for risk among certain populations. Saudi Government and anti-gay people will do the bad act, but he may have given them some information.
Among all the actors, he has done the least. The people that behead gay men? The Saudi government? They're the bad guys. Not information, not truth, and not Assange.
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Oh, for fuck's sake. Handing a person their death sentence does not make it okay because they weren't the ones to chop the head off.
Your argument is ridiculous. In addition to outing the Saudi gay men, they have published the names of teenage rape victims, medical records, financial data, and information relating to paternity disputes, custody fights, and other family concerns. Where is a person's right to privacy in your world? The argument against governments, and for hackers spying into people's private emails and information so they can release it to the world is pretty fucked IMHO. Sounds like you'd love the Orwellian world of 1984.
Oh, and let's also point out that the hackers are probably rich western white heterosexual men of privilege, just like the millionaire Assange. No big shit to them if some gay people die, or how many families they destroy in their quest for power and money.