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This is a pretty smart article. The author makes a solid attempt to explain one of the weirder things about Snowden, Assange, and Greenwald, and the other peopl
by twblalock 8y ago
This is a pretty smart article. The author makes a solid attempt to explain one of the weirder things about Snowden, Assange, and Greenwald, and the other people in their orbit — why do people who care about transparency and revealing government wrongdoing appear to defend and/or support Putin?
I’m not entirely convinced by the explanation, but it’s the best one I’ve seen so far, and a lot of these people’s actions make more sense if the author is right about what motivates them.
- kgarten 8y agoCan you point to one instance where Snowden supported/defended Putin or opinions of Putin? Couldn’t find one in the article.
- pvg 8y agoSeveral such instances are listed in the article, the argument is pretty clearly stated. If you don't find it convincing, that's one thing but claiming it's not there when it plainly is is just odd.
- kgarten 8y agoThe article claims a lot ... yet I cannot find any source interviews where Snowden defended Putin.
- pvg 8y agoThat's not what you asked. The article lists several occurrences which the author interprets as support for Putin. You said you read the article and found no such thing. That's not a reasonable representation of the article. Or of reading.
- kgarten 8y agoSeveral? Snowden is brought into association with Assange and Greenwald, a lot of the instances you are talking about mentioned in the article are not related to Snowden but to Wikileaks etc. I don’t know any instance where Snowden was in direct support or defended Putin (even from the article). The only “Support” from Snowden was showing up in a TV show with Putin asking him 2 questions. Still my question holds: when did Snowden defend Putin? (and can you get a source interview or statement directly from Snowden … not associations over actions of 3rd parties).
- pvg 8y agoI'm not really interested in hashing out whether you think Snowden does or does not support Putin by your personally chosen criteria of the meaning of 'support' and proof. I'm happy to agree that you think he doesn't in advance.
- CalChris 8y agoI don’t know. Moving to Russia?
- kgarten 8y agoSeems US government officials are also colluding with Russia, as they stranded him there (revoking his passport while he was in transit in Moskau).