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Are you aware of the circumstances of how he ended up there? I'm not sure what options you think he had.
by A_D_E_P_T 2y ago
Are you aware of the circumstances of how he ended up there? I'm not sure what options you think he had.
- RegularOpossum 2y agoShould have never run and would have been out free by now like Chelsea Manning.
- kemotep 2y agoSame with Reality Winner. Seems like everyone else who blew the whistle about this stuff didn’t need to run away.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoMy guess is he'd be serving a life sentence.
- pizzzle 2y ago[flagged]
- segasaturn 2y agoHe may have, but it's not as like we knew Manning was going to be pardoned in 2013. She was also put through extremely cruel and unusual treatment during detention, such as being kept in solitary confinement for months at a time for no reason other than to make an example.
- dturdr 2y ago[flagged]
- Glyptodon 2y agoPowers that be have always had it in waaaaaay more for Snowden. I don't think he'd be free like Manning.
- dturdr 2y ago[flagged]
- viraptor 2y agoUnless you're involved in that decision making process and leaking the information here, that's just pure random guy internet speculation. The scope for them was very different and you're basically saying "trust this with your life, you'll be totally fine".
- klAsglx 2y agoWhat is this based on? No matter what people think he deserves, my guess is that Snowden, like Assange, is a character that the ruling class wants to make an example of. Chelsea Manning does not threaten the ruling class, especially after you know what. Assange is still being charged.
- janice1999 2y agoRemember when Mike Pompeo, who would go on to be both a CIA Director and Secretary of State, publicly called for Snowden to be executed. I do.
- Smeevy 2y agoI totally agree that he didn't have many options. A consequence of him choosing to be under the protection of an adversary of my country is that his opinions about my country carry much less weight with me now.
- fooker 2y agoBut it is not an opinion about your country, unless you think there's significant symbiosis between OpenAI and the US government, proving his point.
- Smeevy 2y agoQuite the opposite. He's saying that OpenAI is a tool of the American surveillance state. I don't even really disagree with that. Edward Snowden saying it while under the protection of the Russian government makes me look for ulterior motives. That's how we're supposed to treat disinformation, isn't it?
- fooker 2y agoIf you don't disagree with that, what do you disagree wih here? Of course criticizing the US is the ulterior motive here, doesn't make the criticism false.
- cryptoegorophy 2y agoI wonder what the options are. Seems like any developed country would given him to USA without any issues no matter how illegal it is (see Kim Dotcom saga), and out of all the “pro Russia “ options Russia(Moscow) is the most developed one to have a good lifestyle.
- georgeplusplus 2y agohow he ended up there has no impact on what influence Putin has over him now. Which is a lot. And incase you don’t follow the war in Ukraine, where dissidents and journalists are jailed for straying even slightly from the main narrative. He doesn’t get a free pass, hes very likely pressured to a large degree especially given the influencer like status he wields.