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Isnt this just a legally mandated api for all phone operators in the US? Edward Snowden published several slide decks about it a few years ago, before he defec

Isnt this just a legally mandated api for all phone operators in the US? Edward Snowden published several slide decks about it a few years ago, before he defected to Russia.

lfmunoz4 2y ago
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- booleandilemma 2y ago
  What do you think would have happened to him if he had stayed here? The last whistleblower the US government got to was imprisoned for seven years and identifies as a woman now. Snowden would be crazy to come anywhere near the US.
  - 1d22a 2y ago
    I'm not sure why gender identity is relevant. I agree that the punishments he would have gotten for whistleblowing justify him not staying in the US.
  - nolok 2y ago
    He didn't disagree with the need to leave for Snowden, he said it wasn't a defection. Snowden hasn't defected the US anymore than the Dalai Lama has been deflected Tibet. I guess "went into exile" would be the proper naming.
  - blueblob 2y ago
    The parent wasn't arguing he should come back but saying that "defected" is not the correct word. The correct phrase is probably "took asylum."
- hn92726819 2y ago
  Why are you booing him? He's right! > to forsake one cause, party, or nation for another often because of a change in ideology I don't think he left because of a change in ideology.
  - slim 2y ago
    he was not heading to russia. he's just trapped there
    - DarkmSparks 2y ago
      Of course. He accidentally tripped, fell, and landed in Sheremetyevo International Airport with a nice cushy job in the Russian government, with Russian citizenship and a nice estate worth 10s of millions of dollars, and clearly just accidentally mispoke when he swore allegiance to Russia. All the nsa secrets he took with him were irrelevant to that story, typical of any asylum seeker arriving anywhere. lol, oops, I forgot how triggered some people get for calling it defecting.
not2b 2y ago
It doesn't appear to be, though it was speculated that it might be. Companies keep all that data in the hope of making money by mining it.

Isnt this just a legally mandated api for all phone operators in the US? Edward Snowden published several slide decks about it a few years ago, before he defected to Russia.

lfmunoz4 2y ago

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booleandilemma 2y ago
What do you think would have happened to him if he had stayed here? The last whistleblower the US government got to was imprisoned for seven years and identifies as a woman now. Snowden would be crazy to come anywhere near the US.
- 1d22a 2y ago
  I'm not sure why gender identity is relevant. I agree that the punishments he would have gotten for whistleblowing justify him not staying in the US.
- nolok 2y ago
  He didn't disagree with the need to leave for Snowden, he said it wasn't a defection. Snowden hasn't defected the US anymore than the Dalai Lama has been deflected Tibet. I guess "went into exile" would be the proper naming.
- blueblob 2y ago
  The parent wasn't arguing he should come back but saying that "defected" is not the correct word. The correct phrase is probably "took asylum."
hn92726819 2y ago
Why are you booing him? He's right! > to forsake one cause, party, or nation for another often because of a change in ideology I don't think he left because of a change in ideology.
- slim 2y ago
  he was not heading to russia. he's just trapped there
  - DarkmSparks 2y ago
    Of course. He accidentally tripped, fell, and landed in Sheremetyevo International Airport with a nice cushy job in the Russian government, with Russian citizenship and a nice estate worth 10s of millions of dollars, and clearly just accidentally mispoke when he swore allegiance to Russia. All the nsa secrets he took with him were irrelevant to that story, typical of any asylum seeker arriving anywhere. lol, oops, I forgot how triggered some people get for calling it defecting.

not2b 2y ago

It doesn't appear to be, though it was speculated that it might be. Companies keep all that data in the hope of making money by mining it.