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Snowden to meet with human rights groups in Moscow
- buro9 13y agoAnyone else wonder if this is misdirection to mask his already having fled to South America?
- quchen 13y agoFor all we know, he could still be in Hong Kong.
- jsmcgd 13y agoThe thought crossed my mind too but I think this is probably legitimate.
- reneherse 13y agoIgnoring the comparative levels of freedom in the respective countries, wouldn't it seem to be a safer bet to seek asylum in Russia than Venezuela? Russia seems far less politically volatile and more likely to resist US pressure over a 50 year time span.
- perlpimp 13y agoI doubt the government would let him keep publishing his works. While it is an ok solution he might want to go to the country that will let him to run the course of his disclosures.
- steveklabnik 13y agoMy understanding is that Snowden has already given everything to a bunch of journalists, encrypted, who can access the data even if something happens to him. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-snowden-s-files-are-out-there-if-anything-happens-to-him.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-s...
- _k 13y agoHe's looking for a solution because what if his plane is hijacked ?
- smackay 13y agoThe Russian government is endorsing a meeting between an American dissident and human rights groups - pinch me, I must be dreaming. It seems that the old Cold War days of political intrigue between East and West are back with a vengeance. What's fascinating is to think about how much this is orchestrated by Putin and how much by Snowden. If it's the former then there is some long term strategy that the Russians are playing (political domination of Western Europe within 100 years, anyone?) If it's the latter then, given all the pressure of recent events, he must be a very remarkable individual indeed.
- cup 13y agoNever underestimate an entities willingness to engage in blatant hypocrisy if they believe they can benefit out of it.
- snitko 13y agoThere's a very common theme on sites like HN or reddit (and I'm not implying you're using it here, but your comment may at least suggest it - if not, forgive me, my comment is not directed at you specifically) that although western governments can be dicks, they are still nowhere near 3-rd world countries' governments when it comes to human rights and other things you, western countries' residents, take for granted. However, in my view, the thing to realize is that almost all achievements the west made came not from a system of governance, but from individuals continuously restricting those who govern and from the entrepreneurial talent that flourished when government didn't bother them. To say that western governments are somehow better than a Russian government is to be ignorant. They only thing they are better at is lying and deceiving its people about its own importance to the society.
- cmdkeen 13y agoThat's simply not true. Western countries have significant differences in structures that enable them to achieve compared to Russia. The key one that springs to mind is a rule of law that courts actually follow. Compare Russia after signing the Helsinki Accords, and it's constitution which had all sorts of freedoms that were totally ignored, to the West. When you look at recent Kremlin activity like the expropriation of entire corporations, jailing of people like Magnitsky, murder of journalists and dissidents abroad you'll realise that there are no checks or balances in place at all.
- wikiburner 13y agoI know it's ironic given recent revelations, but am I the only one who's super-reluctant to click on any link ending in .ru or .cn? No jingoism here - probably just too many years on Windows have me paranoid.
- andreypopp 13y agoKeep up with that
- panacea 13y agoI'm paranoid about clicking on any links regarding these revelations on a site self-labelled "hacker"-news... even reading The Guardian! And it disturbs me. I'm quite certain I'm on a algorithmically generated shortlist as a result of following this mess. I know the internet hasn't been the 'wild west' for quite some time, but it morphed into 'panopticon' pretty damn quickly.
- wwhitman 13y agoShortlist? That would be a very, very long list. So long in fact as to be totally useless. There is a cure for Internet paranoia. Fresh air and sunshine.
- panacea 13y agoShortlist? Used as a metric between deciding whether your get you next job, your affordable insurance policy.... long lists are easy to store and use with prejudice. I'm thankful that fresh air and sunshine is a viable pursuit for my weekend sojourn. Not so much for urban poor.
- muyuu 13y ago"No jingoism here" => proceeds with jingoism.
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- deletes 13y agoLive stream in the airport: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RjENfMdMSRI#at=2116 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RjENf...