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Always looked at him as an anti-governmental corruption and abuse advocate... it feels weird he hasn't said a word since Russian invasion in Ukraine started...

QuarterRoy 5y ago
It was always a condition of him staying in Russia that he could only call out things that occurred anywhere but Russia. He has a wife and child now and in calling out the Kremlin he’d either be jailed by the Russian government or expelled by Russia and likely taken to the US for trial.
- jimbob45 5y ago
  This People are getting jailed under highly specious circumstances in Russia. It wouldn’t surprise me if I learned he was already under some sort of precautionary light house arrest.
car_analogy 5y ago
Don't you think he's risked and sacrificed enough already?
notfromhere 5y ago
That became hard to swallow when he ended up in Russia.
nowherebeen 5y ago
He would literally be putting his life in danger. He isn’t putting out tweets in support. Therefore, his silence means that is his best option for the moment. You can’t expect someone to put his life on the line for you to feel justified. It’s not his country.
rufus_foreman 5y ago
He did say a word since the invasion started: "I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong." By "called it wrong", he means this, from February 11: "So... if nobody shows up for the invasion Biden scheduled for tomorrow morning at 3AM, I'm not saying your journalistic credibility was instrumentalized as part of one of those disinformation campaigns you like to write about, but you should at least consider the possibility."
- car_analogy 5y ago
  Even a perfectly working clock is wrong twice a year for daylight savings time :)
- dTal 5y ago
  This comment should have been top level, it explains everything.
- javajosh 5y ago
  This supports the theory that Putin is a) a rational actor who was b) fed bad information about Ukraine's political disposition, and so c) appeared to act irrationally. Snowden knew a, didn't know b, and then felt rebuked by c. I would tell him: it's okay, Ed, how could you have known?

QuarterRoy 5y ago

It was always a condition of him staying in Russia that he could only call out things that occurred anywhere but Russia. He has a wife and child now and in calling out the Kremlin he’d either be jailed by the Russian government or expelled by Russia and likely taken to the US for trial.

jimbob45 5y ago
This People are getting jailed under highly specious circumstances in Russia. It wouldn’t surprise me if I learned he was already under some sort of precautionary light house arrest.

car_analogy 5y ago

Don't you think he's risked and sacrificed enough already?

notfromhere 5y ago

That became hard to swallow when he ended up in Russia.

nowherebeen 5y ago

He would literally be putting his life in danger. He isn’t putting out tweets in support. Therefore, his silence means that is his best option for the moment. You can’t expect someone to put his life on the line for you to feel justified. It’s not his country.

rufus_foreman 5y ago

He did say a word since the invasion started: "I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong." By "called it wrong", he means this, from February 11: "So... if nobody shows up for the invasion Biden scheduled for tomorrow morning at 3AM, I'm not saying your journalistic credibility was instrumentalized as part of one of those disinformation campaigns you like to write about, but you should at least consider the possibility."

car_analogy 5y ago
Even a perfectly working clock is wrong twice a year for daylight savings time :)
dTal 5y ago
This comment should have been top level, it explains everything.
javajosh 5y ago
This supports the theory that Putin is a) a rational actor who was b) fed bad information about Ukraine's political disposition, and so c) appeared to act irrationally. Snowden knew a, didn't know b, and then felt rebuked by c. I would tell him: it's okay, Ed, how could you have known?