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Snowden leaked documents from the NSA revealing illegal mass surveillance. See here for more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden https://en.m.w
by agd 6y ago
Snowden leaked documents from the NSA revealing illegal mass surveillance. See here for more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
- fouric 6y agoI'm aware of what he did. That doesn't make him an authority on anything.
- sushshshsh 6y agoIf a person of Snowden's reputation is not enough for you, who is?
- throwaway2048 6y agoNobody, because they don't want the issue discussed, so they are going to attempt to discredit.
- jariel 6y ago"If a person of Snowden's reputation is not enough for you, who is?" I don't think anyone seems to grasp the OP's question. Snowden is a low level analyst who leaked some relevant information. He seems like a smart guy. But none of this makes a person's opinion particularly informed or newsworthy, especially on these kinds of board level, inner circle type dealings.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoI don’t get this logic. What does his reputation have to do with what the parent is saying? Nothing that Snowden is saying here draws on any particular expertise or inside information. The point is that this is no different than you or I criticizing the hiring decision.
- sushshshsh 6y agoWhy would you not want to at least hear someone's opinion, even if you discard it immediately thereafter?
- lern_too_spel 6y agoSnowden's reputation is as a barely literate conspiracy theorist who leaked a list of targeted servers to China, a huge trove of documents that didn't say what he apparently thought they said, and a single illegal US data collection program (phone metadata).
- dencodev 6y agocool astroturfing