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You would think if there was something really terrible in the documents, Snowden would have talked about it first. Instead, he mostly talked about PRISM, which
by lern_too_spel 13d ago
You would think if there was something really terrible in the documents, Snowden would have talked about it first. Instead, he mostly talked about PRISM, which turned out to be a nothingburger when Greenwald released the documents that Snowden had misinterpreted.
- wvbdmp 12d agoIn what way is PRISM a nothingburger? You’ve been making this claim repeatedly in this thread.
- lern_too_spel 12d agoIn that it was perfectly legal. Snowden, with his high school dropout reading skills thought it allowed the NSA to pull any account's data directly off the companies' servers, and Greenwald, with his technical illiteracy, believed him. The Guardian didn't have a competent news editor and allowed the story to be printed without verification from an expert, while pretty much every other news agency got the story right. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785016