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> If you think things were better in the 70s, you really weren't paying attention. Yeah, well I was 3. Even so I don't seem to recall Ellsberg fleeing the cou
by enko 13y ago
> If you think things were better in the 70s, you really weren't paying attention.
Yeah, well I was 3.
Even so I don't seem to recall Ellsberg fleeing the country to escape absolute certain injustice. I don't recall his video interview with a foreign paper while he hid in China. Do you?
Something has definitely changed.
- regal 13y agoYou're basing all this on a sample size of two.
- nitrogen 13y agoHow many famous whistleblowers are there?
- markvdb 13y agoFor a broader sample base, you just widen your category a tiny little bit to Edward Snowden, Jeremy Hammond, Aaron Swartz, Bradley Manning and Jacob Appelbaum.
- WeirdSemantics 13y agoI think the point is not that one should use larger samples, but rather than the conclusion is wrong since the sample is too small. Iow, there's no proof that the situation really changed in the US on the discussed topic.
- fieryeagle 13y agoYou must mean, ones who are/were made public right?
- declan 13y agoImagine how things might have turned out differently for Bradley Manning if he had a day or two to get out before his arrest.
- olympus 13y agoManning was a PFC in the Army. He wouldn't have been able to afford fleeing to Hong Kong or Moscow making less than $30,000 per year. He would have had a much more difficult time evading arrest.
- jlgreco 13y agoHow much money could such a fleeing really take? I mean, 30k isn't much at all, but would he even have been paying for rent or food while enlisted? If he managed to save up a few thousand for a few plane tickets and maybe a few days in a hotel on his own wallet, then that would be enough. I don't think a few thousand is a particularly unreasonable ask.