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Ecuador admits it cut Assange's internet to stop WikiLeaks' US election 'interference'

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Re: Neutrality and all that

He's actually protected by the US law when it comes to distributing Podesta's emails and the DNC emails

In what way? They are not his emails, so he is either perpetuating a theft or at a minimum committing a copyright violation, and he doesn't have the legal protection of being a member of the press because that went titsup when the Swedish newspaper he was planning to join told him to f*ck off.

That has been Assange's driving motive all along: somehow create something that could pretend to be a member of the press so he could get protection for past and future hacking by abusing freedom of the press laws.

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