Snowden on the Twitters

[oshwm]

Yeh, that opinion came after an exchange with Greenwald on Twitter about
releasing the entire cache but unfortunately that Twitter account is
gone now due to Twitter's hatred of Tor so I can't fish it out.

But if you read through quotes from Snowden himself you see that he
leaked the information to cause a debate about how we should be
governed, not because he thinks the Government should be transparent.

A quote from his Wikipedia page (yeh I know no-one trusts Wikipedia but
sometimes it's handy):-

"For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already
accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to
work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because,
remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a
chance to determine if it should change itself. All I wanted was for the
public to be able to have a say in how they are governed."

On 01/10/15 06:34, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 08:38:14PM +0100, oshwm wrote:
>> Snowden is a moderate extremist, he doesn't want transparent government
>> and private individuals, he just wants a discussion on where to draw the
>> line with surveillance, his leaks are purely to further this aim.
>> Assange and the people who have worked with him on leaks are more the
>> kind of people we need.
> You well might be right that CF are evil. FP should have written on
> their privacy page they don't have the SSL private key.
>
> The claim about Snowden is quite strong, what is a reference for this?
>
>