The WikiLeaks founder was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy and will face charges from a 2010 incident in which he allegedly tried to help his source Chelsea Manning crack a government password. Documents that Manning leaked to Assange revealed the U.S. military’s killings of civilians and journalists. (Financial Times, The Guardian)

Talking point: Remember 2010? The movement for radical transparency on the internet was ascendant. Aaron Swartz had just co-founded Demand Progress. Anonymous was rising. WikiLeaks published the Cablegate leaks, revealing what U.S. diplomats thought about the rest of the world. Nine years later, many of Anonymous’ leaders are in jail, Swartz has died by suicide and WikiLeaks is a shell of its former self, accused by the U.S. government of aiding Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election. The internet transparency battles of today are no longer activists versus governments on issues like exposing military secrets, but instead corporations versus governments on issues like net neutrality.