I thought he was like one of the most important whistleblowers of our time exposing war crimes and shit. Some of you don’t wanna see him live another day, why is that?

  • m0darn
    51·
    9 months ago

    One of the things I struggle to understand (maybe I should read more about it) is how US law has jurisdiction to stifle speech outside of US territories.

    Like if Romania declared Borat a state secret, would every pirate on that swarm with a seed ratio above 0.00 be subject to extradition?

      • m0darn
        4·
        9 months ago

        The US (and Canada, where I live) has an extradition treaty with Romania.

        The US treaty does mention that

        …neither Party shall refuse extradition based on the citizenship of the person sought.

        But I haven’t read it in detail so that may or may not be relevant (the past I quoted is referring to a particular part of the treaty).

        My understand is that typically the threshold for extradition is mutual criminality which I suppose is my answer to how US law applies itself outside US territories (because leaking state secrets is a crime in most countries). So I withdraw my inquiry.

        If Romania declared Borat a state secret pirates could perhaps be extradited.

        But also note that I don’t think Assange can be charged with treason, because he isn’t American.