Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy
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Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy
#2The key bit:
> The Ecuadorian government said in statement that it had acted because Assange had breached “a written commitment made to the government at the end of 2017 not to issue messages that might interfere with other states”.
Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy
#3Ouch. He will be out of there in no time. Hopefully someone can get the guy a 4G modem or something.
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#4Cutting Internet access always works on bedroom dwelling teenagers. Have to admire Ecuador's simple logic on this.
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#5Took them long enough to change the WiFi password.
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#6A pringles can, and somebody sympathetic within a mile, and no problem.
Unless they threaten to throw him out for accessing the internet.
Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy
#7> I have already fully served any theoretical (I haven’t been charged) ‘bail violation’ whilst in prison and under house arrest. So why is there a warrant for my arrest?”
Not in the least bit arrogant. "Well, I hid out here because I feared extradition. That should basically count as my sentence for violating bail, right?"
Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy
#8Maybe UKIP leader Nigel Farage could make one more visit and give him a 4g Modem and then forget why he went there in the first place.
Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy
#9> The move came after Assange tweeted on Monday challenging Britain’s accusation that Russia was responsible for the nerve agent poisoning of a Russian former double agent and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury earlier this month.
So it's actually not so wrong to think that Russia is not >provenI doubt that here, on HN, most of us would go so deep with conspiracy, but rational thinking did not lead me to the conclusion that Putin is responsible this time.
Of course we don't know the whole story, but shouldn't people like Assange reveal it?
Also, why would the UK-Ecuador relations be in danger of a tweet of a fugitive?
Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy
#10> I have already fully served any theoretical (I haven’t been charged) ‘bail violation’ whilst in prison and under house arrest. So why is there a warrant for my arrest?” Not in the least bit arrogant. "Well, I hid out here because I feared extradition. That should basically count as my sentence for violating bail, right?"
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/651/. For someone who spends his time distributing leaked government documents, he sure has a … peculiar understanding of how the law works. (At least, how it works 99.9% of the time).