Current Events > Edward Snowden Sides With Musk

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nekrodev posted...

I haven't seen the interview, but if it's even remotely as bad as Snowden is saying it is, then oof.

And, fuck Elon Musk, but a bad interview is a bad interview.

If you're a powerful and controversial figure as Musk is, it's not an interviewer's job to be nice to you

tremain07 posted...

Progressives love Snowden and assange and demand pardons for both men because freedom of the press means they bare no responsibility for anything they leak

My dude, I'm as hard a leftist as you'll get around here and I loathe the both of them.

I can tell Snowden is wrong about this one because Musk has never done anything in good faith in his entire life.

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And whistleblowers should continue leaking that surveillance for decades until they stop.

IceCreamOnStero posted...

And whistleblowers should continue leaking that surveillance for decades until they stop.

Why would we want people leaking military intelligence and formations to potential foreign adversaries

Snowden wasnt just a well intentioned hero looking out for the good of the american people when he leaked everything.

Anteaterking posted...

Snowden has done so much self-aggrandizing of his actual role working for the government when it's clear that what he was mostly motivated by was ego. I think even if you think that he shone light on bad things, the hero narrative kind of falls out of wack when it ends up being more like "I was okay with all of this until people didn't treat me like the wunderkind I thought I was and so I found another way to get infamy".

Was it his biopic that had the whole "okay he's releasing info but we need everyone to know he's a smurt guy so have him solving a Rubik's Cube with one hand" or some shit?

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Why would we want people leaking military intelligence and formations to potential foreign adversaries

Snowden wasnt just a well intentioned hero looking out for the good of the american people when he leaked everything.

Because the populace should know about their governments infringing on civil liberties.

IceCreamOnStero posted...

Because the populace should know about their governments infringing on civil liberties.

You're just straight up refusing to think beyond the most elementary take possible, eh?

IceCreamOnStero posted...

Because the populace should know about their governments infringing on civil liberties.

I think your record is skipping. On pure "parrot" mode right now.

murrica posted...

Was it his biopic that had the whole "okay he's releasing info but we need everyone to know he's a smurt guy so have him solving a Rubik's Cube with one hand" or some s***?

It was apparently his idea to have the scene where he walks out of the building with a USB drive to have it hidden inside a Rubik's Cube that he wows the security guard with or w/e.

IceCreamOnStero posted...

And whistleblowers should continue leaking that surveillance for decades until they stop.

Lol okay child

Anteaterking posted...

It was apparently his idea to have the scene where he walks out of the building with a USB drive to have it hidden inside a Rubik's Cube that he wows the security guard with or w/e.

That's substantially more pathetic.

Motherfuckers acting like they didnt know about the Patriot Act 1 & 2

don lemon is a dweeb, but lol snowden and lol musk

Yazarogi posted...

Motherfuckers acting like they didnt know about the Patriot Act 1 & 2

Or fucking COINTELPRO.

Doom_Art posted...

it's not an interviewer's job to be nice to you

But it is their *job* to do what their employer tells them to do.

We can't talk about an interviewer's or a reporter's conduct outside of their job until they belong to a standards organization with guidelines focused only on journalism [as their profession].

https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

andri_g posted...

But it is their *job* to do what their employer tells them to do.

We can't talk about an interviewer's or a reporter's conduct outside of their job until they belong to a standards organization with guidelines focused only on journalism [as their profession].

https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

>Elon claims to be free speech crusader

>Hires employee who gives him harsh interview using freedom of speech in question

>Fires employee immediately

Russian assets gotta stick together I guess.

snowden was never anything but a russian shill. imagine claiming the moral high ground for leaking documents of which 99%+ weren't relevant to what you claimed and then fleeing to live under and shill for putin