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Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

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It's not news because no one cares. You guys all live in a bubble where you think this is the most important issue in the world right now. Maybe it is. But, honestly, no one cares.

Then why has it been all over the news? Why has the President of the United States discussed it publicly on multiple occasions? People obviously do care.

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

#52
post #40
post #34

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https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en

I must say I'm becoming increasingly disappointed about archive.orgs lax copyright policies. Becoming a treasure trove of pirated material really eats its legitimacy in my eyes.

This is historically important material produced by a wholly owned subsidiary of a license-funded public broadcaster for a license-funded public broadcasting group. Of anything to complain about "lax copyright policies" and "becoming a treasure trove of pirated material" over, this would seem a particularly bad choice.

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

#53

Complete made up speculation. I'm in the UK, read & watch the news everyday, and didn't know this interview was happening. It's also the first time I've seen it mentioned online. It wasn't promoted properly. Re: YouTube takedowns - wouldn't it be the producer of the programme taking those videos down? You make it sound like the USG is removing videos from YouTube.

The news here in the UK is just as selective. The BBC are the worst believe it or not.

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

#54

We need to keep our paranoia in check. That article is B.S. — wrong on all the verifiable points. And the rest is just random guesses. I went and checked the German news (I'm American but lived in Germany 5 years, and am still fluent) and it turns out that ARD screwed the pooch on this one: the two most respected media outlets in Germany are pissed off and have written about ARD's shoddy editing and refusal to provid…

The US media doesn't get a pass -- especially print media or long-form web articles on nytimes.com, etc, which shouldn't have concerned themselves with rights to video (see my response to 'nostromo'), but I was unaware of the copyright/licensing issues surrounding the interview until you brought them to light. I am more enraged by the explicit avoidance of the topic by the US media. Thanks for your comment

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

#55
post #47

It's not news because no one cares. You guys all live in a bubble where you think this is the most important issue in the world right now. Maybe it is. But, honestly, no one cares.

Are you saying you don't care? If so, why did you read the article, and why are you commenting on it?

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

#56
post #35

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Nope - doesn't work for me in the U.S. Can you download it and torrent it?

For anyone that can host it, here's how to get the mp4. From: http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=e2ce8368acfc Length: 85151797 (81M) [video/mp4] Right-Click & Save As... http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/ll_a_s/2014/Jan/27/LiveLeak-...

"Anti-hotlink protection: The hash code for the file you tried to view has expired."

Thanks, though, got it downloaded.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:da801929f47900e5d64d20601c5f00001f26bd57&dn=Snowden%5FInterview.mp4

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

#57
Other HNers 'dogwatcher', '_stephan', 'rdl' - have brought to light related copyright issues -- which might explain (in part) the lack of coverage on Cable media stations and have discredited the link. That said, the content of the interview was substantial and of eminent importance (newsworthy) for all US citizens.

Print media or long-form web articles on nytimes.com, etc, shouldn't have concerned themselves with rights to video (see my response to 'nostromo').

I was unaware of the copyright/licensing issues when I made the submission.

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

#58

I highly recommend watching this interview, in which Snowden clearly explains his motives for doing what he did and describes the scope of the data collection carried out by the NSA and its allied foreign intelligence agencies. While I've followed this story quite extensively, this is first time I've actually watched an interview with Snowden, and I was very impressed with his intelligence, thoughtfulness, depth of k…

Nah, the time has passed for stuff like that. It's time to wait for a reset. The intelligent people tried to warn the rest of us long ago, no one cared then, fuck the rest of you now that it's too late. I'll only do anything to speed up the reset... and I doubt the rest of 'you' will be ready for that until things have once again gotten so bad that something else will needed for success. #edit hellban request denied…

God, someone can post 'Seriously?' and get a hellban and I cannot? Look in the mirror you sad fucks. I still have 312 "points" from you idiots. Try harder.

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

#59

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Nah, the time has passed for stuff like that. It's time to wait for a reset. The intelligent people tried to warn the rest of us long ago, no one cared then, fuck the rest of you now that it's too late. I'll only do anything to speed up the reset... and I doubt the rest of 'you' will be ready for that until things have once again gotten so bad that something else will needed for success. #edit hellban request denied…

God, someone can post 'Seriously?' and get a hellban and I cannot? Look in the mirror you sad fucks. I still have 312 "points" from you idiots. Try harder.

Eh, you know, if every opposing viewpoint were banned, we'd end up with (even more) groupthink.

Re: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

#60
post #41
post #39

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Then you won't have much difficulty believing the NSA and their apologists, will you?

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Are you saying he made up the PowerPoint slides himself? That they are not really NSA slides and documents?
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