• Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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    Someone has to publish and put it into the public domain like Wikileaks did. Of course, at that point they will be liable and be charged with using stolen material and sued. But, hey, take one for the team.

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      so what’s stopping “someone”? there are infinity minus one randos on the internet willing to host juicy hot leaks for whatever ulterior motives.

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        What happened to Julian Assange is what’s stopping someone. And he wasn’t even in the US.

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            He spent over a decade imprisoned and pled guilty to something that’s clearly first amendment protected activity, I wouldn’t call that Scot free.

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              “First amendment”… ? So you think it’s fine to release information you know will lead to murder of innocent people, are warned repeatedly, you do it anyway, and that’s all fine.

              And this is to say nothing of the women who credibly claim he raped them.

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                And this is where you’re supposed to link to a specific instance of anyone who got murdered due to the leaks, because that didn’t happen, he redacted the files to avoid this.

                As for the ghosting charge, I agree he should’ve stood trial in Sweden for that.

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      I mean in the past hackers posted a lot of data online without getting caught…like the Ashley Madison hack for example. You don’t have to use a middleman journalist to post it