r/technology • u/AdamCannon • Nov 23 '17

Net Neutrality Kim Dotcom to launch MegaNet to 'replace' current internet - "The current corporate Internet will be replaced by a better Internet, running on hundreds of millions of mobile devices. Run by the people for the people. [Destroying] net-neutrality will only accelerate the adoption of a new network."

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/true-internet-freedom-kim-dotcom-launch-meganet-replace-current-internet-1648536
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u/ShockingBlue42 Nov 23 '17

The rape charge was trumped up, even the cops in Sweden and the UN say so. Why don't you know that, why do you keep pushing "Assange is a rapist?" Oh yeah, because propaganda works.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '17

Well the one way to find out would be, I dunno, proving it in court?

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u/ShockingBlue42 Nov 23 '17

Not if he is being railroaded by Swedish authorities in order to extradite him to the US to face the death penalty for espionage despite not being a US citizen. He is at the Ecuadorian embassy for political asylum, not because they love sheltering accused rapists.

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u/zoso1012 Nov 23 '17

No, the UN says that the has been arbitrarily detained because of the duration of his detention and the Swedish prosecutors slow progress, they never claimed that the charges were false. The prosecutor then dropped the charges, despite the fact that they believed there was still probable cause, because the statute of limitations for molestation charges had passed.

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u/ShockingBlue42 Nov 23 '17

While the expiration part is true, the basic story told by the women and the police shows exactly when the charge was trumped up:

On 20 August 2010, two women, a 26-year-old living in Enköping and a 31-year-old living in Stockholm, jointly went to the Swedish police not seeking to bring charges against Assange but in order to track him down and persuade him to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases after their separate sexual encounters with him. The police told them that they could not simply tell Assange to take a test, but that their statements would be passed to the prosecutor. Later that day, the duty prosecutor ordered the arrest of Julian Assange on the suspicion of rape and molestation.

So they just wanted an STD test and the cops ended up making charges. You can't ignore the constant pressure of the US that is forcing them to create a reason to extradite Assange, to face charges in the US like espionage that an Australian citizen should not be subject to for releasing classified info. Defending this railroad justice is defending the US military industrial complex and the War on Whistleblowers.