Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet
TED ·Published on Mar 18, 2014
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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people that hate snowden = hate the idea of liberty 
glad the guy whistle blew on domestic abuses,
but giving information to foreign nations is in fact a crime.
the idea that disagreement with snowden or his supporters means we 'hate' him is kinda reaching too.
sorry we don't all see him as a hero.
will he be able to get back to the US before 2016? 
One that stood out to me when I watched the video and one that you almost never hear. Anywhere.
But TPTB have always used diversionary tactics to keep their minions distracted and in-line with the official thought-stream.
That's why whenever you see ANY argument against Edward Snowden, it ends the minute the TRUTH is raised. They have no answer to the TRUTH. All they have is WELL, EVERYBODY'S DOING IT. YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE THEY'RE DOING IT!!! SO WE HAVE TO DO IT!!!
This is what we've devolved to. This is what constitutes leadership in the world. How did it get this way, you might wonder?
People are afraid. Have been for a while, but they're really afraid now. Most live in FEAR and they hope that by placating the GIANT MONSTER that it won't step on them like it does everyone else that disagrees with it.
Some are just willfully-ignorant. Like children afraid to open their eyes in the darkness.
America is the 900 pound bully of the world. We kill babies and children and their mothers indiscriminately -- and yet you'd almost never know it was happening at all. Thanks to Snowden and Chelsea Bradley now everyone knows what we do.
Many are incensed by these revelations because they'd been looking away and ignoring the carnage for so long and gotten away with it. But now they can't look away. It's too late for that.
- Now they have to choose sides. Truth or BS.
''Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.'' ~George Orwell
Where are the Usual Suspects on this thread? Its obviously because they are part of the group you describe:
Many are incensed by these revelations because they'd been looking away and ignoring the carnage for so long and gotten away with it. But now they can't look away. It's too late for that.
And they have sadly chosen BS over Truth out of some kind of misplaced cult of personality. Which is laughable, because while they decry those who can see the importance of what Snowden has done in raising the conversation as being hero/traitor worshipers, they then ignore their own blind hero worshiping. But deep down it must just be a fear of not being able to handle the truth, and so not wanting to hear it.
and a brilliant quote from George Orwell!
- You should post it.
We see THIS piece by David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth form the NYTs that ran in my Sunday's Post Gazette paper today…
But even as the United States made a public case about the dangers of buying from Huawei, classified documents show that the National Security Agency was creating its own back doors - directly into Huawei's networks.
More here: http://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2014/03/23/NSA-B-NSA-said-to-infiltrate-Chinese-telecom-s-operations/stories/201403230177
So… What double standard do we have now, in the name of national security?
