Press Complicity and Public Apathy All Along Enabled 14 Years of Illegal, Arbitrary Detention and Coercion Into Plea Bargain of Julian Assange on Brink of Death
They basically blackmailed him into letting the US 'win' the argument, having already destroyed his health and his site (it still does not say anything about his release).
We collectively need to do our best to undo the damage and reverse the precedent (no matter how low a court it is ascribed to).
How to do this?
One thing is clear: similar cases are not imminent (e.g. some Australian citizen publishing evidence of American war crimes from Europe).
The US government has done enough to chill any Web site similar to Wikileaks. This is what they wanted. Nobody wants to be the next person limping off a plane and then saddled with a "surprise" $520,000 bill (for that plane). â–ˆ