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DamianTV
05-03-2016, 04:23 PM
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/05/03/200220/snowden-governments-can-reduce-our-dignity-to-that-of-tagged-animals


NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden writes a report on The Guardian explaining why leaking information about wrongdoing is a vital act of resistance. "One of the challenges of being a whistleblower is living with the knowledge that people continue to sit, just as you did, at those desks, in that unit, throughout the agency; who see what you saw and comply in silence, without resistance or complaint," Snowden writes. "They learn to live not just with untruths but with unnecessary untruths, dangerous untruths, corrosive untruths. It is a double tragedy: what begins as a survival strategy ends with the compromise of the human being it sought to preserve and the diminishing of the democracy meant to justify the sacrifice." He goes on to explain the importance and significance of leaks, how not all leaks are alike, nor are their makers, and how our connected devices come into play in the post-9/11 period. Snowden writes, "By preying on the modern necessity to stay connected, governments can reduce our dignity to something like that of tagged animals, the primary difference being that we paid for the tags and they are in our pockets."

"Without Privacy, everything becomes subject to approval, and thereby convert all Rights into Privileges." -me

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"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing;

when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors;

when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work;

and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you;

...you may know that your society is doomed."

- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged.

ZENemy
05-03-2016, 04:42 PM
lol, CAN?

Have.

FindLiberty
05-03-2016, 06:05 PM
Trump should choose Snowden as his VP running mate!

(while somehow resisting the urge to hang him for treason)

mrsat_98
05-03-2016, 06:32 PM
Announce pardon for snowden.

FindLiberty
05-03-2016, 08:18 PM
Announce pardon for snowden.

There you have it! Win-Win deal negotiation skill level: TRUMPMASTER

DamianTV
05-04-2016, 02:55 PM
Announce pardon for snowden.

Oooh! Someone should totally try to make that go viral!

Snowden = Hero

Chomp
05-04-2016, 03:29 PM
For tyrants the humankind are equal to animals.