Edward Snowden says it's your 'duty' to install ad blockers

Re:Edward Snowden says it's your 'duty' to install ad blockers by zeveb on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @05:06PM (#10584339)

I happen to agree that it's a good thing to use ad blockers (and that malvertising is becoming a bigger and bigger problem), but it's a bit much being lectured on duty by someone who betrayed his duty, betrayed his colleagues and betrayed his nation.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Edward Snowden says it's your 'duty' to install ad blockers by ionised on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @05:17AM (#10586922)

How did he betray his nation exactly?

From where I'm sitting, it looks like he did everyone except the government a huge fucking favour.

Your government is not your nation, and your government are the ones betraying you.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Edward Snowden says it's your 'duty' to install ad blockers by zeveb on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @10:35AM (#10588227)

> How did he betray his nation exactly?

He revealed information about supposed national-security intelligence-collection measures.

> From where I'm sitting, it looks like he did everyone except the government a huge fucking favour.

He certainly did the Chinese and Russian governments a huge favour.

> Your government is not your nation, and your government are the ones betraying you.

Hardly. Nothing he has alleged is illegal; nothing he has alleged is unconstitutional; everything he has alleged was appropriately targeted.

I'll grant him this much: he doesn't think he's evil; he thinks he's doing good. But what he's actually done is cause exceptionally grave damage to the government and people of the United States of America (and, insofar as the United States act as guarantors of the Pax Americana, he's endangered the rest of the world as well).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Edward Snowden says it's your 'duty' to install ad blockers by ionised on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @10:59AM (#10588398)

> He certainly did the Chinese and Russian governments a huge favour.

How?

> Hardly. Nothing he has alleged is illegal; nothing he has alleged is unconstitutional; everything he has alleged was appropriately targeted.

Have you been reading the same news/leaks as I have?

> But what he's actually done is cause exceptionally grave damage to the government and people of the United States of America (and, insofar as the United States act as guarantors of the Pax Americana, he's endangered the rest of the world as well).

Again, how do you know this?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Edward Snowden says it's your 'duty' to install ad blockers by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @10:36AM (#10588238)

Well that's the whole argument there - what he revealed was illegal and unconstitutional. Denial of that makes him look pretty bad, I admit.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Edward Snowden says it's your 'duty' to install ad blockers by CyberDildonics on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @12:39AM (#10586143)

You sound like a propaganda sponge.

[ Parent | on HN ]