Re: <nettime> Guardian Live on Assange's arrest

[Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.com>]

Democracy Now is doing interviews on this, which you can access via
their twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1116320933977841664/video/1

and there, Glenn Greenwald makes the point that Assange is neither US
citizen, nor is Wikileaks a US-based news organization, thus "the idea
that the U.S. government can just extend its reach to any news outlet
anywhere in the world and criminalize publication of documents … is
extremely chilling."

For Trump, it poses an odd political problem, because Assange is a real
hero to this base. I scrolled through the comments on Breitbart, and the
were all really positive about him, and saw is arrest as the works of
the "globalist" deep state.

Even if you don't like his dealings with Trump and would like to see him
properly prosecuted for his alleged rape in Sweden, I think Greenwald's
point is still the core one.

Besides the specific content of the leaks that came out of Wikileaks, I
think Assange has been the most innovative person in journalism, and
particularly the print media owe him a lot of thanks for pioneering a
model (research pools, database investigation, data journalism beyond
graphic design etc) that made them more relevant again.

All the best. Felix




On 11.04.19 14:32, Patrice Riemens wrote:
> On 2019-04-11 13:16, John Young wrote:
>> New TV link of Assange arrest:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stTMt1tLT4g
> 
> 
> There are already 3 pages of minute-by-minute reporting on the arrest,
> pbly m few more to come:
> 
> https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2019/apr/11/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-arrested-at-the-ecuadorean-embassy-live-updates
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