Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

Today we're going to be talking about Julian Assange since he's in the news again after being arrested on April 11th.

And since he was taken into custody, it seems like everybody has had something to say about Julian Assange.

Social media and the news were just full of hot takes like

thank goodness he's an enemy of the state lock him up or conversely oh no this is an

assault on freedom of speech and freedom of the press how could this happen and

you know what that diversity of viewpoints doesn't bother me?

Assange is a public figure in politics, of course, opinion on him is going to be split,

but what bothered me was how little information people seem to be actually basing their opinions off of.

It seems to me that for a lot of people though of course not everyone,

how they view Assange is really dependent on what tribe they belong to, like whether they're on the left or

the right or whether they're pro or anti-establishment, not so much what his actual work has

been or what the actual charges against him are.

So in this video, what we're going to try to do is push aside the partisanship and the politics

and try to look at the facts.

To answer the question, is Julian Assange a hero or a villain and trust me the answer is complicated and to do that we're going to start at the beginning and work our way forward to the current charges so there's going to be a lot of information coming at you, be prepared and I know that right

now especially Assange and WikiLeaks are such polarizing topics but please try to approach

this video with an open mind because I think there's a lot of information here that people just

don't know about. So with that being said, let's get started. In case you didn't know,

Julie Nausage is an Australian-born computer programmer who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. And according to WikiLeaks

to WikiLeaks itself the site is a multinational media organization and

associated library.

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