And Reddit is usually on the more "enlightened" end on such topics, at least used to be.
Ask some random person on the street about Assange and the best they can come up with is probably something about fleeing from the Swedish police for rape, something Russian agent, maybe something about how he treats his cat horribly or doesn't clean his toilet properly.
The Five Eyed propaganda machine [0] was very effective in smearing him, and even Snowden, among the general public in these past years.
Ask some random person on the street about Assange and the best they can come up with is probably something about fleeing from the Swedish police for rape, something Russian agent, maybe something about how he treats his cat horribly or doesn't clean his toilet properly.
The Five Eyed propaganda machine [0] was very effective in smearing him, and even Snowden, among the general public in these past years.
[0] https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/