Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

[Top Boy]

Dudes talking about "mysterious death" like the wiki leaks founder aint still out here chilling

Internet conspiracy theorists never really know whats going on

The ignorance in this post is overwhelming.

You do know Assange has been granted Asylum right? Dude hasn't left the Ecuador Embassy in an entire year and if he does walk out that building he'd be arrested on the spot.

Dude sleeps with a glock under his pillow.

Abandon thread while you still can.

 

[Jordan8]

The ignorance in this post is overwhelming.

You do know Assange has been granted Asylum right? Dude hasn't left the Ecuador Embassy in an entire year and if he does walk out that building he'd be arrested on the spot.

Dude sleeps with a glock under his pillow.

Abandon thread while you still can.

I remember he was under asylum but last I heard which wasnt long ago he was running for Senate in Australia which is kinda nowhere near Ecuador....

So Im guessing he's not under asylum anymore?

 

[decemberlove]

I'm not about that Michael Scofield life, man

Gov. is scary, yo

 

[trasoul82]

You can't even create a new yahoo ID without verifying it through a cell phone. People still waiting for big brother to put chips in us....

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

...when we already carry the chips around.

 

[RIP sleazyy]

The ignorance in this post is overwhelming.

You do know Assange has been granted Asylum right? Dude hasn't left the Ecuador Embassy in an entire year and if he does walk out that building he'd be arrested on the spot.

Dude sleeps with a glock under his pillow.

Abandon thread while you still can.

I remember he was under asylum but last I heard which wasnt long ago he was running for Senate in Australia which is kinda nowhere near Ecuador....

So Im guessing he's not under asylum anymore?

1. The embassy is in London. Not literally in Ecuador.

2. He is still under asylum.

 

[degenerate423]

What can we do against the government?

It's a question I always ask myself. They can lock you up or have you framed, removing you from the general public indefinitely word to Julian Assange.

If we did decide to start a movement, it would have to be hella lowkey for a long period of time, gathering supporters and ****.

Not even sure how you would gather supporters, because you know the FEDS is watching at this very moment b.

Realistically, if our military just decided not to take orders, that would cripple our government.  It would lead to a coup and then we'd have the power again...

 

[jjs07]

Not sure what the motivation was for Snowden. You have to be completely foolish to think that the government isn't tracking your every move. The reason why many of us don't care is because it doesn't affect our everyday lives.

 

[law3001]

Realistically, if our military just decided not to take orders, that would cripple our government.  It would lead to a coup and then we'd have the power again...

Um no the military would have power. Countless dictatorships across the world started with Military coups.

 

[RustyShackleford]

No way this dude is seeing old age.

 

[djexpanium]

Really though

You can't even create a new yahoo ID without verifying it through a cell phone. People still waiting for big brother to put chips in us....

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

...when we already carry the chips around.

Since when?

 

[omgitswes]

He'll probably be out of a job soon, and that's great because Booz Allen is one of the companies I've been applying too lately.
I'll take his spot

 

[an dee 51o]

For anyone who uses the "I'm not doing anything wrong so I don't care" argument.

 

 

[an dee 51o]

Its comical that people are praising this. The government has been doing surveillance on the population for a while now.

Uh. what exactly is comical? Everyone knows this has been happening. However this is official, written PROOF that the TOP SECRET wiretapping and phone records requests are going on, and to whom they are looking at. I don't see how this is insignificant in the slightest.

 

[trasoul82]

Really though

You can't even create a new yahoo ID without verifying it through a cell phone. People still waiting for big brother to put chips in us....

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

...when we already carry the chips around.

Since when?

Since the Gov't decided they want to link all of your email(s) to your cell phone(s) in order to end online anonymity. Try it and get back to me.

 

[trasoul82]

Its comical that people are praising this. The government has been doing surveillance on the population for a while now.

Uh. what exactly is comical? Everyone knows this has been happening. However this is official, written PROOF that the TOP SECRET wiretapping and phone records requests are going on, and to whom they are looking at. I don't see how this is insignificant in the slightest.

But you know damn well America as a collective society isn't going to do anything. Any movement that pops up will be immediately vilified before it gains traction. What CAN be done at this point anyway? All there has to be is the THREAT of an attack and the U.S. Gov't has carte blanche.

 

[sundoobie]

What can we do against the government?

Why are we ELECTING the same bozos into office though?

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Just last November 2012... this country.. the USA spent $6 Billion in campaign spending to brainwash the public to elect the same parties.

 

[OG44NJ]

The US government needs to terminate this guy or someone will get more information out of him. He mentioned he had access to undercover agents names and missions. That makes him a threat to US security now. 

 

[dmbrhs]

They're going to paint this man to be a terrorist of some sort.

For anyone who uses the "I'm not doing anything wrong so I don't care" argument.

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-van-buren/a-childs-guide-to-why-nsa_b_3403714.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

That HuffPo article is absurdly awful.

 

[RIP sleazyy]

They're going to paint this man to be a terrorist of some sort.

For anyone who uses the "I'm not doing anything wrong so I don't care" argument.

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-van-buren/a-childs-guide-to-why-nsa_b_3403714.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

That HuffPo article is absurdly awful.

Why? The point was to break it down so even a child could understand it.

 

[degenerate423]

Realistically, if our military just decided not to take orders, that would cripple our government.  It would lead to a coup and then we'd have the power again...

Um no the military would have power. Countless dictatorships across the world started with Military coups.

Um, we'd have to recognize them as an authority for them to have power.  The military can overthrow the government, but the citizens still have to agree to let them have power thus we, the citizens, have power.  Note, I didn't say a military coup.  The military could stop taking orders and allow for a militia comprised of citizens to overthrow the government, then we instantiate a new government.  Basically what I was getting at is the way our nation was founded in the first place, we didn't want Britain to control us anymore, so we overthrew them and started our own country.  Obviously, there's different circumstances, but the idea is there...

 

[fudgemoney24]

He had nothing to say about the aliens though? :\

 

[RIP sleazyy]

He had nothing to say about the aliens though? :\

Google Gary McKinnon.

 

[davidme00]

Foolish man is foolish

 

[slamcity]

Not sure what the motivation was for Snowden. You have to be completely foolish to think that the government isn't tracking your every move. The reason why many of us don't care is because it doesn't affect our everyday lives.

I think the majority of his decision to leak was probably for the sake of the public, but a large part of it had to do with personal burden. I'd imagine it'd be a pretty guilt-ridden life knowing the secrets that you know, knowing that those same secrets victimize even your closest loved ones. Whose to say that the guy in the cubicle next to him wasn't a week away from spilling the beans himself.

 

[fenixconnexion.]

This dude is a hero.