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Be like Edward Snowden (lemmy.world)
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[+] -82 points 3 years ago (4 children)

And of course, the next logical step is to leak gigabytes of secret and sensitive information.

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  • [–] 88 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    ...Leaked to a reputable member of the fourth estate to decide what was safe to report. Do you disagree with the founders of the United States about the importance of the fourth estate's role in keeping leadership honest?

    The only other steps short of that would have been to either quit and shut the fuck up or continue participating and shut the fuck up.

    Sounds like you just wanted him to shut the fuck up about your freedoms being eroded by the government that's supposed to protect them.

    I don't believe willful ignorance is a defensible position, ever.

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  • [–] 52 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    It very much is, if the offense is egregious. And the NSA spying on everyone and their employees trading nudes the NSA collected very much is egregious. And to make it sound like he just dumped the raw leaks does not make your argument seem more credible.

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  • [+] -65 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Or, you know, he could have talked to journalists without such security breach.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    The security breach was the NSA letting anyone fiddle with the data. They should be thankful Snowden leaked them instead of a foreign intelligence service listening in for years unnoticed.

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  • [+] 18 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [+] -7 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Except it's exactly what David Grusch did, with no proof, and yet we have multiple oversight hearings and amendments to the defense authorization, and he made international news

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's basically what he did...

    🤣

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  • [+] -21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There was no need to do that with gigs of secret data…

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Lol... He gave the egregious "secret data" that Americans fully deserved to know about to a fucking journalist (Glenn Greenwald)

    So, I disagree.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Greenwald shines Putin's boots.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I think we can all agree that Greenwald is an idiot.

    IMO Snowden probably chose him because a. he wrote for The Guardian, b. he was publically critical of the Iraq war and c. he is politically on the right.

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  • [+] -28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You're getting downvoted for stating what Snowden out for what he is -- a Kremlin operative traitor.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    He had no other choice. Russia was not his first goal to find refuge in. But germany and other countries did not take him in.

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