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NO! The often cited "problem" with American perception, and how we've even gotten to a point where this type of thing is possible, is exactly because people lo
by blhack 13y ago
NO! The often cited "problem" with American perception, and how we've even gotten to a point where this type of thing is possible, is exactly because people lose interest in a story so quickly.
You're talking about an the US government pursuing a political dissident across the planet, and doing so because he exposed them performing wholesale 4th amendment violations to every person in The United States.
That is a HUGE deal. That is so much more a huge deal than another article about IOS7, or another article about how google's reign is over.
I hope there is a Snowden story at the top of HN every day until his story reaches a conclusion, and if you care about your civil liberties, I hope that you can sacrifice the 80px of so of reading every morning.
- 1337biz 13y agoThat is a HUGE deal. That is so much more a huge deal than another article about IOS7, or another article about how google's reign is over. This! Over and over again. I hate seeing HN getting so politicized lately. But it is unavoidable considering the current state of affairs. Each time I click the upvote button an an NSA article I am a bit concerned that it will just end up in another NSA bashfest. But even here on hn the voices of the apologists for the unprecedented war on privacy by the Obama administration are too strong and can not be challenged enough.
- Daniel_Newby 13y agoSnowden is a sideshow, a freak biting the heads off chickens to draw the crowd away. To the extent that there is any NSA story at all, it is that if Snowden can do this in his spare time, then China and Russia have been helping themselves to a copy of the intercepts for years. This is not about the 4th Amendment, it is about a de facto state of war. A state of war that the DNP is covering up with a blizzard of distractions.
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