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> Probably not, Snowden is part of the Russian Spy and Disinformation campaign. He is basically a Russian agent. love when everything inconvenient to the Unite

> Probably not, Snowden is part of the Russian Spy and Disinformation campaign. He is basically a Russian agent. love when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation"

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation" That's not what disinformation means. Disinformation is a polite way of saying lies [1]. [1] https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/schwerpunkte/EN/disinformation/examples-of-russian-disinformation-and-the-facts.html https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/schwerpunkte/EN/disinform...
ChumpGPT 2y ago
Really? How convenient for you to just blame the USA and list France as an affiliate. If the USA wanted him (Durov), they could have arrested him a long time ago. Why doesn't Snowden speak about the horrors of the Russian war in Ukraine where woman and children are raped and shot? He only speaks when it is beneficial for his masters.
- vgb2k18 2y ago
  "Why doesn't Snowden speak about...", this would be because he likes breathing.
ath3nd 2y ago
> love when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation" I thought and still think that Snowden is a brave and righteous man for airing the US government's dirty laundry. Not him becoming a Russian citizen, but rather his silence on the bloody war of Putin, however, makes me think that I should take Snowden's words with a pinch of salt.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
  He is living in Russia. A place where government critics have a tendency to defenestrate themselves. That he is not openly endorsing the current government might be as much latitude as he is allowed.
- ScottBurson 2y ago
  Do you really think Putin would hesitate to arrest him if he did that? Snowden knows he is being watched closely. I suppose that is itself a reason to take what he says with a grain of salt, but I certainly don't take his silence on the Ukraine war as evidence of assent.
  - ath3nd 2y ago
    It's just not like Snowden of the past to endorse apps with bad privacy defaults and non encrypted group chats like Telegram. I'd have understood if he had said the same if the CEO of Signal was arrested, but I can't understand it for Telegram, an app that's mostly not used in an e2e encrypted way. Telegram is also an app that is widely used by Russian troops to organize and also for dissemination of propaganda and misinformation. It's just not characteristic of Snowden to endorse apps that could potentially be honeypots/backdoored, and to equate such apps as important to free speech.
busterarm 2y ago
and love the people that only apply this thinking in a foreign policy context and not domestic because it's inconvenient to their party...
JAlexoid 2y ago
> love when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation" This tweet is literally plain propaganda move, as it has little to do with human rights... and Snowden has been a treasure trove of Russian sponsored propaganda lately. To the point of me thinking that his Twitter is just some FSB agent writing posts for him.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation" That's not what disinformation means. Disinformation is a polite way of saying lies [1]. [1] https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/schwerpunkte/EN/disinformation/examples-of-russian-disinformation-and-the-facts.html https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/schwerpunkte/EN/disinform...

ChumpGPT 2y ago

Really? How convenient for you to just blame the USA and list France as an affiliate. If the USA wanted him (Durov), they could have arrested him a long time ago. Why doesn't Snowden speak about the horrors of the Russian war in Ukraine where woman and children are raped and shot? He only speaks when it is beneficial for his masters.

vgb2k18 2y ago
"Why doesn't Snowden speak about...", this would be because he likes breathing.

ath3nd 2y ago

> love when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation" I thought and still think that Snowden is a brave and righteous man for airing the US government's dirty laundry. Not him becoming a Russian citizen, but rather his silence on the bloody war of Putin, however, makes me think that I should take Snowden's words with a pinch of salt.

0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
He is living in Russia. A place where government critics have a tendency to defenestrate themselves. That he is not openly endorsing the current government might be as much latitude as he is allowed.
ScottBurson 2y ago
Do you really think Putin would hesitate to arrest him if he did that? Snowden knows he is being watched closely. I suppose that is itself a reason to take what he says with a grain of salt, but I certainly don't take his silence on the Ukraine war as evidence of assent.
- ath3nd 2y ago
  It's just not like Snowden of the past to endorse apps with bad privacy defaults and non encrypted group chats like Telegram. I'd have understood if he had said the same if the CEO of Signal was arrested, but I can't understand it for Telegram, an app that's mostly not used in an e2e encrypted way. Telegram is also an app that is widely used by Russian troops to organize and also for dissemination of propaganda and misinformation. It's just not characteristic of Snowden to endorse apps that could potentially be honeypots/backdoored, and to equate such apps as important to free speech.

busterarm 2y ago

and love the people that only apply this thinking in a foreign policy context and not domestic because it's inconvenient to their party...

JAlexoid 2y ago

> love when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation" This tweet is literally plain propaganda move, as it has little to do with human rights... and Snowden has been a treasure trove of Russian sponsored propaganda lately. To the point of me thinking that his Twitter is just some FSB agent writing posts for him.