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    'Can you hear me now?' Edward Snowden joins Twitter, follows NSA



    Whistleblower Edward Snowden has joined Twitter with his first message containing a simple question: ‘Can you hear me now?’

    Snowden is already being followed by over 100,000 people, with his only follow being the NSA, the agency behind the mass surveillance practices the whistleblower unmasked.

    When contacted by Mashable, Twitter confirmed the account really belongs to Edward Snowden.

    The @Snowden handle was already taken by another user, who agreed to give it up to the whistleblower after a request from Twitter administration, the Intercept reported.

    “I used to work for the government. Now I work for the public,” Snowden wrote in his account description.
    http://www.rt.com/news/316951-edward...itter-account/
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    LOL @ who he's following.
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    What took him so long ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    What took him so long ?
    He's been busy.
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    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post
    He's been busy.
    Doing what ? Fixing his broken glasses he wears during public appearances ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    Doing what ? Fixing his broken glasses he wears during public appearances ?
    I dunno. Whistle blower $#@!. I don't care if he sits on his ass for the rest of his life, he's done more than I ever have.
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    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
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    How do we know it's really Snowden?
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    That Asian chick in the first few comments of his first post is sure a lapdog for the state.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Valli6 View Post
    How do we know it's really Snowden?
    Twitter confirmed the account really belongs to Edward Snowden
    Twitter says it is. We'll see if Snowden confirms it or not.
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    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
    Doing what ? Fixing his broken glasses he wears during public appearances ?
    Here what he's been up to.

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    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
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    DaFuq?

    I wouldn't share those "Love Notes".

    ...

    Within an hour of joining Twitter, Snowden had already accumulated more than 100,000 Twitter followers. Snowden, though, is only following one Twitter account: @NSAGov.

    The NSA doesn't appear to be following Snowden yet — at least on Twitter. The agency is, however, encouraging its followers to send NSA-branded "love notes." Seriously.

    https://news.yahoo.com/snowden-joins...171454920.html
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    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post
    DaFuq?

    I wouldn't share those "Love Notes".

    https://news.yahoo.com/snowden-joins...171454920.html
    That crap is just plain sad and pathetic.
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    Snowden has over 600k followers already
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    HAHAHA, the responses to his tweets are great.

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    Edward Snowden's first Twitter troll: Republican candidate George Pataki

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    Within six hours of joining Twitter, Snowden had acquired over 629,000 followers on the social media website. In contrast, Pataki, who currently polls under 1% nationally as well as in early states, has 53,000 people following his Twitter account.

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...aki-republican
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    I wonder if the NSA will follow him back?

    Quote Originally Posted by Ron Paul View Post
    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
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    Quote Originally Posted by libertyplz View Post
    Snowden has over 600k followers already
    Ed Snowden joined Twitter in a half-baked publicity stunt for the company. Despite the fact that there are 17 US government intelligence agencies and hundreds around the world as well as thousands of contractors, Snowden chooses to follow one and only one of them, the NSA. Really? It’s just press releases anyway. His tweets seem as if they are written by a publicist but the media is gah-gah over this. If you look at his followers they seem as if they were just planted by Twitter. It’s hard to believe any of these people give a crap about Snowden or even know who he is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by timosman View Post
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    Where did you get that quote from? It's pretty dumb.

    Over 1 million followers now.. ya.. I guess they are all "plants" lol...
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    I followed and I'm not a plant.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    Where did you get that quote from? It's pretty dumb.

    Over 1 million followers now.. ya.. I guess they are all "plants" lol...
    I think there is a valid point. Why only NSA ? The quote is from noagendashow.com newsletter. They maintain Snowden is CIA and what we are seeing is the internal power struggle between CIA and NSA.
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    Epic trolling going on here, listen carefully to the guest as the host drones on about her prepared talking points bashing Snowden.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lindsey View Post
    I followed and I'm not a plant.
    Just what a plant would say!

    Conspiracy theories can be interesting and all, but sometimes they are just truly absurd. "Oh my god, Snowden is following the NSA and only NSA, must be a conspiracy! Nevermind the fact that he is known as the NSA leaker! there must be a conspiracy behind it all!"

    Also, why is it hard for them to believe that Snowden is actually behind the tweets? They do know that Snowden has taken part in Reddit AMA's right? He hasn't blocked himself off from communicating directly to people online
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron Paul View Post
    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post
    So basically wherever there is reliable Internet people are following Edward Snowden.
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    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
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