{"id":17187,"date":"2024-11-01T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T10:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=17187"},"modified":"2024-11-01T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T10:44:39","slug":"julian-assange-and-bitcoin-face-similar-problems-both-were-demonized-says-assange-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=17187","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange And Bitcoin Face Similar Problems; Both Were Demonized: Says Assange Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI think Bitcoin has had some similar problems around demonization,\u201d said Gabriel Shipton, a film producer and a strong advocate for his brother Julian Assange.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a lengthy, 14 year court battle, the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to Australia in June 2024 after reaching an agreement that guaranteed his freedom but compelled him to enter a guilty plea to breaking US espionage law.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shipton attended the Plan B Lugano conference<\/em><\/a> along with Assange\u2019s wife and human rights defender Stella Assange and John Shipton, Assange\u2019s father, who\u2019s been at the forefront of advocating for his son\u2019s freedom as an advisor to the Assange campaign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJulian was demonized in the press for many, many years, and that is a narrative that we as advocates of the game had to unwind,\u201d said Gabriel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What It Took To Free Assange? Upwards Of $30 Million And Bitcoin Community!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Assange\u2019s father, John, acknowledged the contribution of Bitcoin, and said that \u201cusing Bitcoin to continue publishing, to keep online, to make WikiLeaks totally uncensorable, and having that uncensorable money combined with the architecture of the Internet that made the website uncensorable, is a testament to the power of Bitcoin and the power of Bitcoin to give us that personal freedom to transact.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

“What it took to free Julian!” featuring @Stella_Assange<\/a>, @GabrielShipton<\/a> & John Shipton. Moderated by @natbrunell<\/a>. A powerful discussion you can’t miss!#PlanBForum<\/a> #FreeAssange<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/sYsDUgwVWB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lugano Plan \u20bf (@LuganoPlanB) October 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Addressing the room full of attendees, Gabriel said, \u201cEveryone here understands the outsized contribution of the Bitcoin community and the broader crypto community in basically bankrolling Julian\u2019s freedom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think what the Bitcoin community and the broader crypto community really felt was that this was a very costly exercise\u2014to get Julian free,\u201d said Gabiel. \u201cI think we\u2019re still tallying up everything, and up to $30 million has been spent just across campaign fees and legal fees.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a global campaign. \u201cTens of thousands of individual donations as well as large donations from very wealthy Bitcoin owners and very wealthy people in the crypto community came in, who really put their money where their mouth is when it came to what they stand for in terms of freedom of speech and general freedom of being able to say what you want, like what Julian represented \u2013 freedom of information.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Was the US basically criminalizing journalism?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always been cowardice in journalism, unfortunately,\u201d said Stella. \u201cAnd there have also always been courageous, usually individual journalists, sometimes working in difficult circumstances within their newsrooms, where editors are trying to shut them down and so on. And what Julian and WikiLeaks managed to do was break this kind of existing mould and do journalism in a different way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a distaste for the prosecution of Julian Assange within the US administration,\u201d insisted Stella.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Julian Assange was first arrested in 2010, just seven days after WikiLeaks started publishing data. He was arrested in the UK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe wasn\u2019t actually formally charged with anything until he was forcibly kidnapped, essentially, from the Ecuadorian embassy in April 2019. And then the reality of what was going on in the background became public for everyone to see. The US had charged him, and after a month or so, charged him with 17 counts,\u201d said Stella Assange.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe case should have been thrown out from the beginning, but the UK, of course, basically facilitated this extradition,\u201d added Stella. \u201cAfterwards, the Wall Street Journal published a behind-the-scenes about how a plea deal was reached.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After pleading \u201cguilty to journalism,\u201d Assange chose freedom. \u201cBut at the cost of justice,\u201d said Stella.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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