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Isn't it ironic to post about freedom of press from the country where press is not free and journalists are killed? Iceland and Switzerland are free countries

• mindslight 6y ago
  'Isn't it ironic to post about police brutality from a city where the police beat protestors?' Unless Snowden is proclaiming the virtues of being in Russia, then where he is has little bearing on the validity of what he's saying. Either making it to Iceland or Switzerland is logistically challenging (see: Bolivia), or the downsides of being in Russia aren't particularly bad when you're not speaking out against Russian interests.
  • chinesempire 6y ago
    Snowden flew to Russia He chose to go there Would it be ironic to move to a city where police is brutal, knowing very well it is, by accepting an invite from the major of the city and then tweeting about police brutality in other parts of the World? Yes it would. I live 30kms away from Switzerland, it's really not that challenging to go there. Maybe being in Geneva to secretly investigate the Swiss bank system working for CIA, writing that Switzerland is like "living in an opposite World" just because your own country is living a financial crisis (2008) while Swiss were shielded by their government from it and refusing to testify against NSA while Switzerland offered asylum in exchange for cooperation, didn't work too well for him When it became clear that there was no ground to make it a political case, they dropped the offer Switzerland provides political asylum, not criminal asylum (Whether Snowden is a criminal or not is not relevant)