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[–] glUniform4fv 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The enemy he gave the information to are exactly three journalists: Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and Ewen McAskill. And he was very hesistant to give it to McAskill. He tried to establish contact with Greenwald for over a year before he contacted Poitras, who then established contact with Greenwald. He waited that long because he would not give anyone the information he didn't trust; he was searching for a journalist with integrity.

All information published had names and other identifying information redacted. It is literally just education on what the NSA is capable of doing and has been doing.

Please, explain what you mean by "giving state secrets to the enemy". Was that biased rhetoric and you actually meant to say "giving state secrets to everyone affected"? Or did you really think that Snowden gave something specifically to the Chinese or Russian government that was not published elsewhere?

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[–] Gerplunckamo 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

So let me get this straight, you honestly believe that the Russian government, which is just as much a surveillance state, with one of the worst records of human rights atrocities, is letting Mr. Snowden stay rent free in their nation on humanitarian grounds.

Or the fact that you think he's doing the world a service by being an outspoken critic of American surveillance, yet finds himself surrounded by an intricate, repressive regime, and is in fact not a hypocrite?

Protip: Out of the 1.7 Million files he collected, only 200,000 were given to those journalists. Just under 15% of the files he handed out went to the press. But I'm sure he didn't have plans for the rest of it, right?

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[–] glUniform4fv ago  (edited ago)

So let me get this straight, you honestly believe that the Russian government, which is just as much a surveillance state, with one of the worst records of human rights atrocities, is letting Mr. Snowden stay rent free in their nation on humanitarian grounds.

No, it's rather Putins regular agenda of simply pissing others off.

Or the fact that you think he's doing the world a service by being an outspoken critic of American surveillance, yet finds himself surrounded by an intricate, repressive regime, and is in fact not a hypocrite?

Yes, he is doing the world a service. Unrelated to that service, he is also a critic of worldwide surveillance, regarless of the nation - though it happens that he knows most about American and British surveillance and thus talks most about it. And he finds himself in a repressive regime in Russia because another repressive Regime has taken away is passport and forcing him to live in exile, repeatedly seeking political assylum.

Protip: Out of the 1.7 Million files he collected, only 200,000 were given to those journalists. Just under 15% of the files he handed out went to the press. But I'm sure he didn't have plans for the rest of it, right?

Source on the numbers, please? As far as I know, he gave then entire archive to Greewald but no one knows how much he actually took.

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[–] Vespera 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I suppose without Edward Snowden being completely transparent we'll never be able to tell - but he also wouldn't had been able to accomplish what he did otherwise.