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Did Edward Snowden do something wrong? Because he is treated by the government like he did but he actually helped humanity as a whole. Your comment reeks of har

• adventured 5y ago
  > Did Edward Snowden do something wrong? Yes and it was still quite likely the correct choice/approach (how he went about it) in terms of the overall benefit to privacy globally (which seems to have been his aim). Snowden could have attempted a few other legal approaches to being a whistleblower. The risk would have been far higher they would have buried him and the information in one form or another; they certainly would have tried. And even if he had succeeded through that channel, less information would have gotten out about what they were doing. Doing something wrong doesn't always lead to a bad outcome or vice versa, there is no inherently fixed link there. Doing something right doesn't always lead to a good/positive outcome for example, that's one example I think more people can very easily relate to; and for the same reason that's true, the exact opposite is true.
  • CyanBird 5y ago
    There's just no way that information about what was (is) going on would have come out to the public through normal channels, after all the very reason why Snowden did it was after senior nsa officials explicitly lied to congress about them spying on US citizens