I thought he was like one of the most important whistleblowers of our time exposing war crimes and shit. Some of you don’t wanna see him live another day, why is that?

  • Schaedelbach@feddit.de
    174·
    9 months ago

    Yes, literally a show on Russian state TV. He got a paycheck from the Russian government. I mean, is it that hard to grasp that this little fact makes the “he’s a russian asset” accusations at least understandable? And I am not saying he is one. I am not that informed about him and Wikileaks to have a strong opinion.

    • xor@infosec.pub
      218·
      9 months ago

      RT is not the russian government…
      so everything else you have to say is pointless propaganda
      claiming he’s definitely a russian asset because he had a tv show is like saying everyone that’s been on ABC is an american asset…
      it’s worse than just stupid

      • admiralteal@kbin.social
        172·
        9 months ago

        RT is literally state controlled. It has no independence. It operates in literally the same offices as RIA Novosti.

        You are out of your mind if you are trying to claim they are anything other than state TV by any meaningful definition.

        • xor@infosec.pub
          110·
          9 months ago

          they were state funded but not controlled back then, they’ve been slowly adding on censorship laws… not every human in russia is this super evil, red-scare, diabolical agent plotting against your freedom…
          they were, very recently, much freer and more democratic… putin has slowly been turning it back into a dictatorship
          see also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union

          • admiralteal@kbin.social
            41·
            9 months ago

            You’re full of it. From the time they were founded, they operated in the same building as RIA Novosti. RT didn’t exist until AFTER the various independent journalists and their associations were ALREADY being rounded up and cast out of Russian society.

            They are now and have always been state-controlled. Stop apologizing for dictatorships.

            • xor@infosec.pub
              16·
              9 months ago

              Stop apologizing for dictatorships

              oh look, another stupid troll

              • admiralteal@kbin.social
                5·
                9 months ago

                RT was founded in 2005.

                By 2008 they were parroting clearly-bullshit Russian talking points about Georgia in the 2008 war.

                World Tomorrow aired in 2012.

                You. Are. Full. Of. It.

            • xor@infosec.pub
              13·
              9 months ago

              cool how they played all those advertisements for freeee…
              cool how NBC is 100% controlled by their advertisers…
              cool how funding =/= control

              • magnetosphere@kbin.social
                2·
                9 months ago

                You’re too used to people making attacks. That’s not what I was trying to do. I was asking questions. I don’t know how much of RTs funding comes from the state, and I don’t even know if they run commercials.

                I don’t know how RT is funded, and I’ve never watched it.

                • xor@infosec.pub
                  11·
                  9 months ago

                  100%? That’s 100% control.

                  is not innocently asking questions.
                  but it does not matter.
                  even if RT was 100% a puppet and they employed assange to interview people and speak truth, that doesn’t make him a russian asset
                  it was one of the least significant things he ever did in his long career… and he had some really good interviews…

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        9 months ago

        Hard to imagine more miserable final for ‘world order challenger’ than employee of state-controlled ‘Russia Today’."

        -Alexander Lebedev

        Even Russian Oligarchs are laughing at how obvious it is.

        • xor@infosec.pub
          16·
          9 months ago

          uh huh… so after he’s already arrested and detained inside the ecuadorian embassy, he takes an opportunity to have a webcam interview show distributed on rt…

          after he’s already internationally famous and has a shitload of money… he’s “paid employee of rt” and that discredits everything he did for years before and after that…

          you sound a lot like a paid government employee

          (p.s. rt was a lot freer then and had some pretty good journalism about topics other than russia… but go ahead and keep repeating yourself like an idiot)

          • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            1 I’ve seen no evidence Assange is wealthy 2 Sure seems like cozying up to Russia is a decent escape plan when you’re worried about being locked up in the west 3 I never said all his leaks are bs, I rather appreciated what he and Snowden did. I just think he’s a self aggrandizing hypocrite 4 I could easily paint you as a Russian shill but that’d be fucking stupid because I have no evidence beyond “wahhh this guy on the internet has a different read of a situation than meeee”. I’m not sure if you’re an idiot or not, but it seems pretty clear you’re a prick. Bye.