I don’t know - I’m quite sure a number of wannabe Assanges have decided to have other hobbies after seeing what has been done to him. It’s making an example.

He doesn’t have to actually be in jail for his life to be clearly ruined, and that’s has definitely been done. He has no real freedom, has essentially no real relationships anymore, and is a political toy batted around between nations with the future promise of jail ‘maybe’ in his future, but with no closure.

Sounds like hell to me.

And all those other things sound great to me, Joe random taxpayer, but probably sound pretty terrible to the folks inside the establishment. Have to keep the money flowing or all that work to get the pension goes up in smoke (and that’s assuming they aren’t smuggling drugs and taking a cut or whatever on the side)