▲ 358 ▼ Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extradition (www.bbc.com) submitted 2 years ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml 127 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why would he be a better role model than Snowden? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip -7 points 2 years ago Because unlike Snowden you can somewhat trace him before the big story which made him known, and that trace is connected with, as I said, NetBSD and cypherpunk culture, the good stuff. While Snowden is some messiah which came out of nowhere and is still free and well. It's just suspicious for me. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip -7 points 2 years ago Because unlike Snowden you can somewhat trace him before the big story which made him known, and that trace is connected with, as I said, NetBSD and cypherpunk culture, the good stuff. While Snowden is some messiah which came out of nowhere and is still free and well. It's just suspicious for me. permalink fedilink source parent