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Edward Snowden At Comic-Con: 'I Live a Surprisingly Free Life' (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via The Guardian: Director Oliver Stone talked to whistleblower Edward Snowden in front of an audience at a question and answer session on Thursday evening. He compared Snowden's anxiety over his own appearance in his Snowden biopic film "Snowden" to that of Donald Trump, who was cut from one of his films six years before. Snowden replied: "I'd like to avoid that association." At the event, Snowden did also shed some light on his personal life, years after his revelation of the NSA's secret surveillance of the American public's internet activity resulted in criminal charges under the Espionage Act that led to his exile in Russia. "I can confirm that I am not living in a box," Snowden said. "I actually live a surprisingly free life. This was not the most likely outcome. I didn't actually expect to make it out of Hawaii. I thought it was incredibly risky. I had a lot of advantages in doing what I did; I worked for the CIA on the human intelligence side, I worked for the NSA on the signals intelligence side, and I taught counterintelligence. This is not something that's covered that well in the media. I was about as well placed as anybody could be, and I still thought I was going to get rolled up at the airport and that there were going to be knocks on the doors of the journalists." When asked what he thought about Gordon-Levitt's performance in the film where he plays Edward Snowden, Snowden responded: "This is one of the things that's kind of crazy and surreal about this kind of experience: I don't think anybody looks forward to having a movie made about themselves, especially someone who is a privacy advocate. Some of my family members have said, 'He sounds just like you!' I can't hear it myself but if he can pass the family test he's doing all right." Snowden agreed to participate on the film because he thought it could raise awareness in ways his own advocacy could not. Snowden was also in the news recently for developing a way for potentially imperiled smartphone users to monitor whether their devices are making any potentially compromising radio transmissions.
That rumor is spread by big party political shitbags who want to keep people from stepping out of line just like their shit-lie "voting third party is a wasted vote."
November is coming. Time to fuck these shitburger fascists in the ass with a chainsaw.
there is a scene in the film where Gordon-Levitt is floating, zero-g style in a hotel hallway, tying up a "bundle" of spooks.
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
right now, life looks pretty dismal in so many ways. many problems in the world, problems at home; and for me, personal shit that is becoming hard to deal with.
but when I read about snowden, I feel a little bit better. it feels better knowing that the world is not 100% all corrupt and evil and that some few souls out there really do risk everything to make things better for us all.
I hope mr. snowden finds some peace in his life (sounds like its not all bad, there) and I consider him the #1 hero for our whole century, in terms of humanity and wanting to really improve things, at great personal cost.
mr. snowden: you are an amazing person and I'd do anything I could to help you in any way I could. we all owe you so much. and all we can say is a great big 'thanks!' (we can't even donate to you, which really sucks.)
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You are welcome on my lawn.
Is He in a Super Hero Movie or Comic Book?
In my mind anyone who doesn't care about illegal government spying is a fool and traitor.
I'm here in San Diego where the big convention is ongoing. I look to my left, I look to my right ... I don't see Snowden. Is he in a bathroom or maybe a nearby pub? Or are you referring to some other Comic-Con in some other time or universe? Please explain the headline:
"Edward Snowden At Comic-Con: 'I Live a Surprisingly Free Life'"
...omphaloskepsis often...
I feel like shitty portmanteaus are a fucking signature of right wing rage. Looks like LEFTdot LIE-beral media is working with OBUMMER to get MUS-SLIMES into our country again.
op here.
https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+defector+depression
There are numerous cases of defectors going as far as to kill themselves. Plus imagine the paranoia... is that girl you met really into you or is she a spy sent to make sure you disclosed everything (being paid 150k a year by vladmir putin, protip she is not really into your type, she likes big muscular russian dudes) ? will the USA pay mossad black ops to kill me?
plus imagine how few options you have to do anything. can you go to the police? no. all functions of society are basically cut off for you, besides what your "security team" allows you to do. For your safety. I bet you living for him is like living in the 1950's under stalin!
life is probobly completely ridiculous.
also, the way he appeared. on a telescreen.... it could be an actor with makeup for all you know!
make this appearance so russia looks good. come on.
That is really no different to how the US or other countries act. I wonder how many spies/defectors the US has assassinated over the years, would be willing to bet it is a very high number as the NSA/CIA are very quick to sign kill orders.
no, because in free countries those agencies need to act covertly without much public support etc. They have fear of whistle blowers, and even if they are capable of executing something, it does not mean someone believes they are capable of doing so (they do not have the power of total fear like Russia does)\
in america you need to jump through hoops like a circus seal to exert that level of control over someone. This gets you noticed, so its a high risk activity.
in russia its normal. it is not noticed, there is a strong propaganda arm to mute things.. With someone super high profile they might do it, but its a recipe for a massive scandal resulting in like, congressional hearings, resignations basically a total political shit storm. in russia jack shit would happen. some colonel would get shuffled to siberia, and a whole building full of spindoctors to make it out like vladmir putin saved the world from Armageddon.
Most Americans were outright ignorant about the extent to which government agencies were breaking the law in their data-gathering practices. Snowden gave us a much-needed education on that front.
Further, most Americans were naive in their belief that the government was just collecting what it realistically needed to keep us safe (false on both counts). Snowden gave us a much-needed wake-up call on that front.
Unfortunately, many Americans, you included, don't want to know the truth and don't care about the degree to which your own government is betraying you. Such apathy is what allows these problems to fester, and THAT is on YOUR head.
Snowden broke laws that were being used to keep the country in ignorance, to its own detriment. For that, many people cheer his name. Nobody (apart from the government) even knows what YOUR name is.
By giving all those extremly disturbing infos about just how far survaillance has gone to Snowden, then let him escape and publish that information the NSA finally did their job: Kick ass the world to pay way more attention to security and thus, finally making the world a better place.
Thanks NSA, you did everything right !
In my mind, anyone that capitalizes only the word "I" is a narcissist. And ends up losing their message to the distraction making the reader think: "Why?"
Snowden has personally criticiszed oppressive Russian surveillance laws and never claimed that the life of the general populace if freer in Russia than the USA. His life is what's relatively free in Russia, because of his special circumstances, and that's all he's talking about.
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LOL, yeah snowden showed how much the US government feared getting caught, they did it for decades before him and they continue to do it now. it is no fucking different, the only difference in the US is if you talk about it then you are also a target for government assassination as that is illegal too.
to Russian people for keeping safe Edward despite the wrath of the mighty Military-Industrial Complex and it's political Lobby. They have to suffer quite a lot for it.
I've read this comments thread, and I need to admit that the MSM propaganda works. I presume that's what Snowden could have meant (alright, I can't read minds so I don't know) by "surprisingly" free -- that life in Russia turned out to be better than what he could have expected from reading the MSM.
Of course Russia isn't a human rights paradise, but neither is it a nightmare. And if you believe the media are your eyes through which you can see other countries without actually bothering to pay a visit there, you are very wrong.
you know what would happen to a russian snowden, buddy?
he would find 4-5 guys shadowing him for a while until he ended up with polonium-210 in his food.
and thats just what they did on foreign soil to a intelligence services defector. in 2006.
do you think that the US govt has like some kind of godlike assassination abilities? they just don't do it. do you think us goverment "wet works" services are evolved to the point of russian ones???
russians have no problem doing things like giving someone nerve gas impregnated paper, using radioisotopes as weapons. brutal ass shit. Ibn al-Khattab/ Alexander Levitenko.
for the USA to kill someone, they pretty much need to be in a third world country that is basically in a state of war, to do so without significant (but still existent) political backlash. the russians can do it blatantly, in the middle of fuckin LONDON, which is one of the more older, evolved, cultured and sophisticated cities in the world with a horrific poison DESIGNED to make you suffer (really? you needed to use radiation? people get shot in london every day). Russians do strait up blatant terror hits. Can you see the USA doing a drone strike in the middle of moscaw? or using nerve agents and radioisotopes?? its not the 1960's anymore buddy
Edward Snowden At Comic-Con
Well... not actually "at."
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Go learn some proper English grammar and brush up on your reading skills.
He lives "free life" in bloody dictatorship that shoots few political opponents in the center of the capital, or poisons them with radioactive materials across the Europe, annexes territories from neighboring countries just like Nazis in 1939 and promotes hate of any freedom as freedom is foreign enemy invention. What a poser.
We know you have managed to elude the most powerful intelligence apparatus on Earth, and we see your Telepresence bot rolling around. It must be really cramped in there. But you're no match for Philadelphia Mr. Snowden! Stay away!
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