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293. Julian Assange: Free Speech Martyr? Featuring Stella Assange

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Volume of the Leaks Is Not the Volume.

The espionage act was enacted originally to prosecute spies or at least it purported to do so. It was immediately used to put dissidents, critics of the US participation in the first World War in prison including Eugene Debs. But then for many years it was used to prosecute spies. And if you're prosecuting spies, you don't give them a defense because it's for spies. So this is one of the big arguments that we are using in the extradition.

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