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Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth
Although I do have to wonder if you can prosecute somebody for knowingly publishing classified information. It doesn't seem right that if I came across classified documents about nuclear launch codes I wouldn't be held to some responsibility if I posted them on the Internet.
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What exactly does a US government classification mean to an Australian guy with a server in Sweden? He has no reason to accommodate US law. If these were Chinese documents, we'd be snickering and making sarcastic jokes about the Chinese ... pretty much what the rest of the world is doing now.
It seems the US shut down a mirror on Amazon that was running in the US, that would seem to be the limit of what the government can do to Assange, personally.