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Ecuador Shuts Off Julian Assange’s Internet Access in Apparent Response to Recent Russia Tweets
By artappraiser on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 9:39pm |By Elliot Hannan @ Slate.com, March 28
[....] The government of Ecuador said Assange had violated “a written commitment made to the government at the end of 2017 not to issue messages that might interfere with other states,” but didn’t specify what about Assange’s social media sparked the clampdown. The timing of the move, however, indicates it is in response to Assange’s recent comments on Twitter questioning the U.K.’s assigning blame to Russia for the recent nerve agent poisoning of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England. Assange also criticized the coordinated expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats by the U.K, the U.S., and other European allies in response to the poisoning [....]
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/ecuador-shuts-off-julian-assanges-internet-access-in-apparent-response-to-recent-russia-tweets.html
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