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Give Snowden his due: He made a surveillance debate possible

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Re: Give Snowden his due: He made a surveillance debate possible

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Today was disheartening.

The Guardian writes an expose on what should be the greatest political scandal of our lifetime- the fact that low level contractors and government employees can access all of our chat history, emails and browsing history.

The response? No one on social media is really discussing it, CNN America only has a passing mention of it on their front page (buried near the bottom) and America goes on with its day.

What does it take to get American's outraged about something?

Re: Give Snowden his due: He made a surveillance debate possible

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post #8

Today was disheartening. The Guardian writes an expose on what should be the greatest political scandal of our lifetime- the fact that low level contractors and government employees can access all of our chat history, emails and browsing history. The response? No one on social media is really discussing it, CNN America only has a passing mention of it on their front page (buried near the bottom) and America goes on w…

> What does it take to get American's outraged about something?

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Re: Give Snowden his due: He made a surveillance debate possible

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Well well, a couple of people are starting to wake up. I was nearly despairing that the impact of what Snowden was saying would be lost in the snowstorm the government was trying to create to obscure his message by attacking the man.

It seems the message is getting through, and that is a great thing.

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