Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. “Your rights matter,” he say, “because you never know when you’re going to need them.” Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.
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I was just about to post a very similar message. Minus the comment about this site’s credibility. My reasons for thinking Snowden is an asset for the powers that be are longer than just a talk on TED. But I do think it’s silly to imply that Snowden’s appearance here impinges all of Dane Wigington’s work because you have a particular opinion. I believed Snowden was the real thing at first too. For quite a while really. For one thing Snowden hasn’t really revealed anything that has been very damaging in my opinion. Really nothing except some low level spying. Nothing that anyone in the business wouldn’t already suspect. The revelations all seem quite unimportant to me. Like where are the genuine crimes? For another thing Snowden was supposed to have stolen several hundred thousand pages of secret documents but after all this time only a small fraction have been published and none of that seems to be downloadable in any form that a non geek might easily copy to his computer. Another thing I came across was early comments that Snowden had made which certainly wouldn’t appear to be consistent with his present view. Unfortunately of course for me such posted alleged comments are impossible to verify and so have to be taken with a large grain of salt. But all in all I’d have to say I do not believe Snowden is what he says he is. Take this comment for what it is. An anonymous comment on the internet.
You mean he’s speaking at TED and you guys still don’t get he’s an intelligence asset? Do you not see how this may pose a credibility problem for the site? Maybe you do.