Snowden's TED Talk

[n2doc]

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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http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_snowden_here_s_how_we_take_back_the_internet

[WillyT]

1. K & R !!! - And I Have To Say...

I love how all these elderly MIC warriors, who have the world's most powerful computing power, have NO IDEA, of why Edward Snowden is a hero to so many political info geeks.

Ted... SXSW... to name two...

[Cha]

2. Yeah, "our rights matter", Eddie. But, they don't matter in Russia.

[sigmasix]

3. chamber of commerce

where was snowden's so-called concern in 2010 when the chamber of commerce was using NSA stealth spying tech and his company to spy on Moveon and steal members' identities? Hmm... Sure it isnt partisan- he's an angel and so pure.

[Justina For Justice]

4. Snowden is a Magnificent fighter for Human Freedom.

Snowden ranks with the bravest and wisest of our Founding Fathers, but he seeks to preserve freedom for the entire world.

Snowden has, at enormous personal risk, exposed the the most dangerous threats to our democracy, the secret agencies whose quest for total control of all information and communications world-wide puts them in a position to black mail all of our political leaders, representatives, judges and law enforcement agencies and individual citizens to carry out their plan for total political and economic control over human society. The secret agencies goal is total control and total world dominance.

Thanks to Ed Snowden, we now have a chance of preserving human dignity and human freedom from the government agents and their masters who seek to destroy both.

I am overwhelmed by his intelligence, his personal bravery, and his commitment to human freedom, as this TED talk demonstrates.

[sigmasix]

6. so brave that he chose to defect to a dictatorship and live as one of them

you're using some interesting definitions for "bravery" here. why wasnt he "brave" enough to abscond with the chamber of commerce articles? Maybe he figured they implicated some partisan NGOs that he is on record as supporting? choosing people like snowden and greenwald as heroes says more about your moral shortcomings and general dishonesty than anything else. Russia is a dictatorship and snowden seems oh so comfortable there. why hasnt he incurred the wrath of Putin if he's such a hero for freedom?

[Katashi_itto]

8. Lol! If I was Putin, Hell yeah I would let Snowden live in Russia. It costs Putin

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nothing politically, and the West gets truthfully exposed to be just like the Russian Govt. Worse in fact, due to the scale of the NSA operations. All this at no real cost to Putin. If Snowden becomes a liability Putin can always give him 24 hours to vacate Russia or just shoot him. Plus It gives fuel to the "Obama is perfect crowd", claiming the usual nonsense that Snowden is involved somehow with the Russian Govt.

[Katashi_itto]

7. K&R!