Yeah, he didn't put up a website that made fun of US politicians; he posted things such as classified government material, didn't he? Inapposite comparison.
Yeah, different regimes are sensitive to different issues. All Assange did was release a video showing US bombing civilians in another country. Taters nothing inherently classified about that information. The fact that our government goes to great efforts to hide it and punishes anyone for revealing it is tyrannical.
The crazy thing is that, just like mocking Chinese politicians is not in actuality a big deal in that it’s harmless and it’s clear to us that the Chinese government is being extra sensitive; revealing of US war crimes seems to have been harmless too in that the government continues to do it, the general population doesn’t care, and the people who did it are roaming free, yet the US government continues to be extra sensitive to it.
The US government is trying to show that if you publish American government secrets, they can go after you, no matter where you are in the world. If they succeed, it will send a chilling message to journalists around the world.
