Of course the US would not push him through a window but someone that wanted to damage the US international image might...
Interview with Edward Snowden
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#12Probably worth calling out, since we're apparently supposed to believe Jeffrey Epstein broke his neck by kneeling too hard.
why does this get downvoted ?
Epstein dying in his cell is a major scandal.
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#13He comes off as a guy with integrity. But what about Julian Assange? The consensus in the US media now seems to be that he just wanted to hurt Hillary by helping Donald Trump, and thus was working for team Russia?
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#14He's under FSB protection, the only threat on him now is if he violates their rules. edit i'm sorry does HN not like me pointing out their golden boy is a Russian agent? (intel asset under protection)
Care to hypothesise what those rules might be? Because he does criticise the Russian government openly and often, so he certainly doesn’t look like a pawn, even if Putin is playing metaphorical chess against the whole world.
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#15One thing I always find striking is that Snowden is very good at articulating himself on the fly. He doesn’t always “sell” the general audience, as he gets too technical. However, he’s extremely good at providing solid answers consistently to pretty much every question.
I thought it was kind of surprising at first then I realized it’s because he already thought deeply about everything he’s been asked.
After careful deliberation he made a moral choice to leak information at great risk to himself. This makes him not only good to talk through the technical implications of his choices but also moral ones.
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#18>The class of which I am a part of, the global technological community, was for the longest time apolitical. We have this history of thinking: "We're going to make the world better."
I think a lot of people in the tech community need to come to grips with the fact that you can't be apolitical in a democratic country. Refusing to engage in politics is an abdication of your role in a democratic society. You certainly have the right to do that, but that abdication can't be apolitical. It is instead a tacit endorsement of the status quo. How good or bad that is depends on your personal politics and whoever happens to be in political control at the time.
One example that I think most people on HN can agree on is climate change. You can either work to fight climate change or you are allowing our current path of ignoring the problem to continue. Think of it like inertia. If we don't interact with a political issue, it will keep moving unchanged forever. The only way it changes is when we apply political force to it.
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#20He's under FSB protection, the only threat on him now is if he violates their rules. edit i'm sorry does HN not like me pointing out their golden boy is a Russian agent? (intel asset under protection)
agent and under protection are two different things.