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"By making Mr Assange 'unlikeable' and ridiculous in public opinion, an environment was created in which no one would feel empathy with him, very similar to the historic witch-hunts, or to modern situations of mobbing at the workplace or in school," Melzer said.
The mass media have created and then egged on an atmosphere of what Melzer described to Chris Hedges as "unrestrained public mobbing" by repeating smears without skepticism and using their inflated social media profiles to go even further in their sneering, encouraging the public to join in. Aside from this ongoing psychological abuse on a massive international scale being extremely detrimental to Assange's health, it also facilitated a fatal blow to press freedoms which is impacting journalists all around the world already. It was myopic, petty and very, very dangerous to their own goddamn profession, and we kept warning them but they kept doing it anyway.
To have Gordon step up and tell them that right to their gormless face-holes may not reverse the damage they've done, but at least they had to stand there and listen to it. And my God, was it good to hear out loud. More of this please!
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