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Originally Posted by StanT
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.
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This is exactly what I was about to say. And for that matter, how many times have we been informed of leaked information from other countries on our own news programs and not batted an eye about it? Nor has the world come crashing to a halt.
I remain unconvinced of the dire nature of these leaks. In fact, most of what I has read has stated the exact opposite that none of this information was, indeed, critical or revelatory. What alarms people is the audacity of the action in concert with a fear of the unknown. But I will assert again that in a society where it becomes more and more apparent every year that we do not know what is real and what is not, the 'comfort of knowing' is an illusion.