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Outing himself so publicly was one of the worst things Snowden could have done. Doing so before he was already in a country which had guaranteed him political a

by Trezoid 13y ago

Outing himself so publicly was one of the worst things Snowden could have done. Doing so before he was already in a country which had guaranteed him political asylum was just idiotic. A leak like that one really didn't need the figure-head that the identity of the leaker would provide, and given who he was angering it was only going to make his life painful. A good leak through the right channels doesn't need to be backed by anything. All it needs to do is get the right questions asked to the right people, publicly. If the outlet the leak comes through is trusted enough, it doesn't need the figure head, and it certainly doesn't need a figurehead holed up in an airport in Russia.

loceng 13y ago
You think so? He sure seems to be getting a lot of media and people on their toes waiting to see if the big bad U.S. government catches him or not - and then what will follow if a country does give him asylum?
- Trezoid 13y ago
  That's the side-show distraction from the actual leak. Yeah, people are talking about him. That would be fantastic if he was in it for his own personal gain, but he tried to tell the people of the US that their government was over-stepping the line. Being the story is not helping the story he tried to tell.
  - Shish2k 13y ago
    "Where's Waldo" is a simple concept that most people can understand and have an opinion about. A country spying on its own citizens is an important thing to deal with, but sufficiently complex that most people would rather just ignore it. I would imagine that if even a tiny fraction of the people hearing about Snowden then go in to investigate the spying, then that's more attention than the spying would get by itself.
  - loceng 13y ago
    The mass media putting 'Snowden' in everything, to try to grab some of the traffic, is noise - and that is true it's a problem for the mass consumer. However, the important articles are still circulating, being shared, etc.. it would be good if there was a good way to see them curated in an updated list.
InclinedPlane 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
kaonashi 13y ago
Much better to be quietly disappeared?

by Trezoid 13y ago

loceng 13y ago

You think so? He sure seems to be getting a lot of media and people on their toes waiting to see if the big bad U.S. government catches him or not - and then what will follow if a country does give him asylum?

Trezoid 13y ago
That's the side-show distraction from the actual leak. Yeah, people are talking about him. That would be fantastic if he was in it for his own personal gain, but he tried to tell the people of the US that their government was over-stepping the line. Being the story is not helping the story he tried to tell.
- Shish2k 13y ago
  "Where's Waldo" is a simple concept that most people can understand and have an opinion about. A country spying on its own citizens is an important thing to deal with, but sufficiently complex that most people would rather just ignore it. I would imagine that if even a tiny fraction of the people hearing about Snowden then go in to investigate the spying, then that's more attention than the spying would get by itself.
- loceng 13y ago
  The mass media putting 'Snowden' in everything, to try to grab some of the traffic, is noise - and that is true it's a problem for the mass consumer. However, the important articles are still circulating, being shared, etc.. it would be good if there was a good way to see them curated in an updated list.

InclinedPlane 13y ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg

kaonashi 13y ago

Much better to be quietly disappeared?