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Cut Off From Internet, Julian Assange Has Man With Bullhorn Shout the News to HIm

After the Ecuador Embassy in London cut off Julian Assange‘s access to the Internet, one man took it upon himself to keep the Wikileaks founder up to speed.

Comedian Bobby Mair showed up outside the embassy Wednesday armed with a bullhorn and adorned with a sign announcing himself as “Julian Assange’s Personal Internet Service.”


“What I’ve done is printed out the highlights of the Internet and I’m gonna read them to Mr. Assange with this megaphone,” Mair explained. Said “highlights” included Assange’s horoscope and the weather report in his hometown. He also serenaded him with “In the Air Tonight” for reasons that were not apparent.

NBC reports that it’s not clear whether or not Assange heard him.

Assange sought asylum in the Ecuador Embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden to face an allegation of rape. Ecuador severed his Internet connection over the weekend after Wikileaks published emails and documents from the Clinton campaign, including transcripts of speeches the Democratic candidate gave to Wall Street banks. “The government of Ecuador respects the principle of nonintervention in the affairs of other countries, and it does not interfere in the electoral processes in support of any candidate in particular,” it said in a statement.

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