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irwin mathewi donohoe See, Matthew Keys allowed a news site to be hacked for no journalistic purpose and with no journalistic result and I saw plenty of people at the time stand up for him being a journalist, so I think by that standard Assange was acting as a journalist, even more so.On twitter.com
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irwin mathewi donohoe Personally I think Keys should have had his journalist attribution as revoked as these things get btw (tho it hasn't worked that way), I agree he was incorrectly charged. That said, I think as a minimum standard, doing journalism is enough reason to call a person a journalist.Permalink On twitter.com
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irwin mathewi donohoe But my point is that many of the people who *very reasonably* dislike Assange for being awful, would have stood up for Keys simply because they liked him more. I think Assange is a disaster of a human, and if he was a journalist he isn't now, but the case against him is shit.Permalink On twitter.com
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irwin mathewi donohoe Frankly, the real problem is that there are a lot of awful things Assange has done that are unethical but not illegal that we don't really have a legal structure to deal with, and even if we did I wouldn't trust Trump to do it.Permalink On twitter.com
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irwin mathewi donohoe But on this particular charge, if we want to decide how we should feel about it and react to it based on if he was a journalist at the time: the answer is yes we should.Permalink On twitter.com
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