I personally do, he actually risked his life to release information about the government spying on people. And there are for sure more advanced ways now. Even your phone is listening.

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    I agree with you on Assange, he became too involved in publishing scoops and bringing in large headlines that he got his head too far up his own arse.

    I always wondered about why he stayed in the embassy and wasn’t smuggled out from it in a diplomatic car and flown to Ecuador.

    It wouldn’t be the first time someone was smuggled out from a country using an embassy.

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      Iirc, the embassy was surrounded and watched by agents to arrest Assange, should be step out.

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        I mean, take him to the garage, put him in the boot of a diplomatic car, drive to the airport

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          I can tell you closely followed this story and thought of things trained professionals didn’t.

          -_-