It is saddening, even when a man is a proven activist for human rights or whatever, that somehow even women seem to think they will never be likely to be sexual predators. As history has proved all too many "great men" have been sexual abusers.
In the meantime here are some quotes which show he is just another anti woman self aggrandising prick whose only noteworthy work was actually done by Chelsea Manning, who accepted legal punishment unlike the coward Assange.
^In one astonishing scene, Assange talks to Helena Kennedy QC, who is advising him on how to deal with the allegations. Assange says, as if to excuse himself, that it is a “radical feminist conspiracy” and dismisses the complainants as lesbians. Kennedy tells him it is not helpful to talk like this. “No, not publicly,” he says, while being filmed. Her look of despair is priceless. Assange then explains why it is not in the best interests of the women to press charges. “An actual court case is going to be very hard for these women … they will be reviled for ever by a large segment of the world population. I don’t think it’s in their interest to proceed that way.’’
“His lawyers demanded we took this scene out, and another one where he talks about the investigation and the women involved. We didn’t, and then he sent a text saying the film is a threat to his freedom and he is forced to treat it accordingly.” What right did he have to make that demand? “He had no right. He had no editorial control over the film.”^
www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/29/laura-poitras-wikileaks-film-risk-julian-assange
Julian Assange referred to the two Swedish women who accused him of sexual assault as “treacherous” and claimed that the allegations were the result of “crazed radical feminist ideology”, it has emerged.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/julian-assange-swedish-women-s-sex-claims-are-crazed-feminism-b08z2m0xk
^One Assange lawyer had said in court, "If Sweden [said] sucking toes without washing.. is rape..then that would be an extradition offense? No."
The judge begged to differ. In parsing the several allegations, he wrote of the charge that Assange had penetrated a woman who had agreed to sex only with a condom:
"The obvious and straightforward way of reading that allegation is that the complainant had made it clear that she would not consent to unprotected sex, and yet it occurred without her knowledge and therefore without her consent. Mr Assange was aware of this. Unprotected sex is wholly different from protected sex in that its potential repercussions are not confined to disease and include pregnancy."^
jezebel.com/judge-orders-assange-back-to-sweden-5769148
Apart from the sheer male entitlement dont forget many journalists who do support free speech, and had wanted to work with him, abondoned him because of his lack of professionalism and unwillingness to do the real work of resposible editing and back ground check.
All he did is take the information handed to him and publish in total without assessing the consequence. He is just another computer nerd with lack of empathy, and if newspaper tittle tattle is to be believed, lack of hygiene.
As others have said thank goodness the cat was taken away from him.