• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    The dude sacrificed his comfortable life to tell us that the feds are violating the 4th amendment on a regular basis and you’re calling him a traitor? Fuck you

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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      5 months ago

      I’ll only speak for myself; I don’t think Snowden was a traitor. The guy’s a fuckin hero. That’s not mutually exclusive with maybe him having to give up some intel once he’s in the clutches of the Russian government with maybe not a lot of options that wouldn’t lead to some real bad shit for him.

      I feel bad for the guy. He 100% did the right thing, knowing ahead of time that he would get fucked for it, and now he’s fucked and has powerful powerful enemies, and no friends who can make any difference for him. If anything I was saying sounded like I was agreeing he was a traitor, I was not.

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      4 months ago

      Bro, the Patriot Act happened right after 9-11 and it was right in there plain as day that the gov’t would be listening to the interet traffic of everyone to save us from turrists.

      And way way before that Ma Bell was known for giving access to the gov’t to listen in on phone calls. You think Snowden is some oracle on that front?

      I never called him a trator, I merely said it’s coincidental.