Five years after Assange's UK imprisonment, his prosecution still threatens press freedom

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : If his prosecution is really about hacking, not journalism -- as the government has so loudly and persistently proclaimed for the last five years -- then it's time for the U.S. to drop its attempt to extradite and prosecute Assange under the Espionage Act.
40% : If Assange is successfully convicted under the Espionage Act, those promises will do nothing to stop a future administration, or even this administration, from prosecuting whichever journalists it dislikes.
37% : Under the government's theory in the Assange case, even just publishing government secrets -- something journalists do all the time -- would violate the Espionage Act.
36% : That's why news media outlets, press freedom and human groups, and law professors have all agreed that Assange's prosecution under the Espionage Act threatens press freedom.
35% : After initially charging Assange under just the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the U.S. quickly amended the original indictment to add 17 counts under the Espionage Act.
21% : In 2019, Matthew Miller -- a former Department of Justice spokesperson under the Obama administration -- explained that the Obama DOJ had declined to prosecute Assange under the Espionage Act because if Assange could be prosecuted, so could The New York Times.

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