dinkle's comments

As I understood it, it was Steve who built Reddit and Alexis is the guy who did everything else (like draw the logo or act as community manager in the early days).

I remember Alexis giving a talk on exactly this, he emphasized the importance of letting the engineers worry about building things and not all the trivial things that might get in the way of the goal.

I'm not down playing his role or achievement but we shouldn't forget Steve just because he has a smaller public profile.

That isn't how extradition works. This is an extradition hearing on a EU arrest warrant, the UK (as the arresting country) would not be able to extradite to anywhere BUT Sweden, despite any agreements with the US.

The other factors you must take into consideration is that in the UK, the judicial system is separated from the political one (not so in Sweden) and you would have to deal with English CommonLaw. Compare this with Sweden where the prime minister has already asserted Assange's guilt in parliament for an on-going case (in the CommonWealth countries or the US, this would be grounds for a mistrial).

Although it is tempting to think that because the UK must certainly be one of the US' closest ally that it would bow to the US pressure, there is a lot of legal red tape to go through but in the last 7 years the US has had significant influence over Sweden in legal terms. For instance Sweden once had a strong stance on matters of privacy but now all call records and IP records are stored in the Titan Traffic Database and warrant-less wiretaps are now possible through the FRA law but because of the vast amounts of data with both systems, the data is handed over to the US directly for signal processing (which may be a violation of EU privacy laws and UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights).