Slashdot Mirror
Snowden: 'Governments Can Reduce Our Dignity To That Of Tagged Animals' (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: 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."
No, the traitors are the military personnel, who swore to defend the constitution from all threats foreign and DOMESTIC, and then sit at their desks at the NSA, figuring out better ways to spy on us.
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
A traitor to whom?
To the government that tries to usurp your freedoms? Most certainly.
To you? Most certainly not.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
how is that different from, say, google (the company I dislike the most; or at least on the top 5 hate list) ?
people at google ALL know what the company's mission is. its not about helping mankind, either.
they all take home huge fat paychecks and get all that free lunch and perk stuff; but at the end of the day, they work for a traitorous company who, many believe, is just the civilian arm (dressed up so you could not know it) of the TLA's in government.
same with yahoo and all the rest of the modern 'ad agencies'.
what passes for IoT today is also pretty evil; its mostly about data mining and spying. the IoT guys who like having to -require- an always on net connection - those are evil fuckers, too.
you don't have to work directly for the gov to be a traitor. any time you sell your people out, you are a traitor. perhaps not at the national level, but you still sold people out for some Shiney Coin.
--
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Some people that have posted here seem close to realizing the government is less and less the holders of power, and the corporations like google, are more and more in a position of authority.
I would merely caution against whom you anger, for in a post government corpocracy there will likely be no enforceable laws preventing corporations from seeking 'damages' from negative 'feedback'.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.