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Snowden Rallies Privacy Advocates In New York City

Posted by samzenpus on from the fight-the-power dept.

An anonymous reader writes 'Mass global surveillance "isn't just an American problem, this is a global problem," Edward Snowden told the Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) conference in New York on Thursday. Appearing via video call from Moscow, Snowden spoke with John Perry Barlow, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in front of a crowd of hundreds gathered in downtown Manhattan. Barlow announced the launch of the Courage Foundation, an organization dedicated to financially supporting Snowden's considerable legal battles. "I'm afraid we've descended to this point," Barlow said, "But why do animals lick their genitals? Because they can. Why do governments do this? Because they can't lick their own." "They're licking ours," Snowden quipped, "and taking pictures."'

3 of 72 comments (clear)

  1. Re:We're supposed to take this seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    because they can't hold an intelligent debate.

    There's no intelligent debate to be had, or a debate at all. It's just the government violating the highest law of the land, and people who give a shit trying to stop them. They had no moral high ground since the beginning.

  2. Snowden For President by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Let's vote him in and he can pardon himself. Problem solved.

  3. Thank you Snowden by MildlyTangy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thank you Mr Snowden for everything you have done.

    We always suspected, but never really knew how bad things really are until now.

    Again, I thank you.