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For sure, but as the meme says, why not both?
by AndrewBissell 7y ago
For sure, but as the meme says, why not both?
- dredmorbius 7y agoProportion. The money is de minmus. There's the principle, but the vastly greater principle is learning and sharing Snowden's message. I'm hoping there's a content liberation clause in Snowden's contract with Macmillan to make the book freely available. Given the efficiency of current samizdat distribution sites, that would largely be a formality. It would be welcome all the same. The effective prohibition on compensated publishing (both Snowden and Macmillan would apparently be enjoined, though again, the case for Macmillan to cover its editing, printing, and distribution expenses might have legs) used to be effective at blocking the spread of information. That need no longer be the case. If the NSA's excercise of its contract terms serves to both publicise and liberate the content, their own emasculation mechanism is emasculated.