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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.