I noted several posts that claimed the 'deadman's switch' had been tripped by JA's arrest, but am not personally familiar with the WL releases enough to ascertain whether any new information was released. Have you the ability to confirm new information?
"One wonders whether the real reason journalists will not support Assange is that they simply don’t get it. They don’t understand how a successful prosecution of Assange would threaten their ability to report."
I submit the author of that statement is the one who doesn't get it. The Mockingbird media aren't journalists. They're disinformation agents, and thus are immune from prosecution by their employers. This is why I call them the enemedia.
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Yes, I do get that. I do and have written on it plenty of times, but I wonder if there are any people in that spider's web that do see it and are just scared to report it because they will lose their jobs.
I am confident that almost all of them do see it, and simply are influenced by the biological imperative noted in recent research by @corbettreport, that inures folks in power positions to natural reinforcement of their imposition of oppressive acts, such as lies, damaging reputation, and physical harm, as well as insulates them from compassion, empathy, and a sense of personal responsibility for moral hazard.
While there may be people in such networks that are capable of rising above their biological nature, there are very few people actually capable of it, and although there may be potential for paradigm changing and asynchronous impacts on that network, far more potential exists in the ability of society to develop decentralized responses to centralized attacks on their sovereignty, such as censorship, economic parasitism, and other societal oppression.
Decentralization has begun to whittle away at the parasitic mechanisms able to maintain and grow centralized wealth and power. We have passed peak centralization already, and all that is necessary to eventually prevail in the contest with would be overlords is to resist being embroiled in existentially dangerous war, instability, and division that reduces our ability to withstand attack, and continue to adopt and proselytize decentralized means of production. A danger exists of megalomaniacs burning it all down to maintain their ability to project power by maintaining their parasitic vampirism, but non-sociopaths amongst those that have successfully attained such power will act against such WMD mediated destruction of civilization, because they aren't mentally deranged enough to simply prefer being overlords and having slaves to the demonstrable improvements in their quality of life decentralization brings.
There's little we can do from here to support such dissident powers until they act to counter the madmen that would burn down civilization to keep control of the ashes. When that does come about, then we can react to such opportunities decisively. Even then we must take great care not to allow historic Hegelian Dialectic strategy and tactics to derange our support, and may be better off just continuing to implement the destabilization effected by decentralization, as that alone increases the power of any dissidence of centralized forces.
Weanies that obsequiously serve megalomaniacs without seeking to undermine them are of less value than actual enemies of freedom, even if they wish they could act to support civilized society. Shoot traitors first, as they are more harmful than enemies, due to their dilution and dissipation of the resources of sovereign communities.