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I'd say what Snowden is doing fits fits their core values and goals perfectly. He's spreading gross misinformation and propaganda that's damaging to the US gove
by justinschuh 13y ago
I'd say what Snowden is doing fits fits their core values and goals perfectly. He's spreading gross misinformation and propaganda that's damaging to the US government and major US based technology companies. The fact that he may be doing it out of well-intentioned ignorance rather than willfully doesn't strike me as a big sticking point from their perspective.
[edit: I'm not surprised this is getting downmodded without any actual counterarguments. My comment is a bit too flippant, and the Snowden story really plays to the prevailing biases of the tech crowd. Still this whole episode does have me a little saddened by how otherwise intelligent people can behave so irrationally when something fits what they want to believe.]
- wavefunction 13y agooh man...
- forgottenpaswrd 13y ago"He's spreading gross misinformation and propaganda that's damaging to the US government and major US based technology companies." It is not propaganda if it is true, like the members of congress have admitted. American companies and country own the world, they have power to abuse and they do. Is that hard to understand? Like any other Empire, they fall down over its own weight.
- justinschuh 13y agoWe already know the majority of his claims are not true, or are grossly misrepresented. The latest bit of noise is a congressman with no background on intelligence who misunderstood a briefing he received and just made an ass of himself in public. Just like all the other articles on this, we'll get corrections and clarifications over the next several days that basically amount to a retraction, but I expect that's not what you'll remember.
- coldtea 13y ago>I'd say what Snowden is doing fits fits their core values and goals perfectly. He's spreading gross misinformation and propaganda that's damaging to the US government and major US based technology companies. Err, what? Perhaps you haven't been following the news. Or 10,000 HN stories on this and related issues. As for it being "damaging US government and major US based technology companies", OK, I get what your priorities are...
- justinschuh 13y agoI expect I've been following it much more closely than you, and for much longer, because I have professional experience with much of what's being covered. That's why I'm distinguishing between the headlines and the actual underlying stories, and taking note of the major corrections that follow every unbelievable headline. Just for some context, here's some of comments on the subject on HN six months ago: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979800 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979641