Re:The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove
by 908087 on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:09PM
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The only real change I saw, is that people who used to call anyone who suggested the type of mass surveillance Snowden uncovered was going on "tinfoil hatters" changed their deflection to "everyone knew that, I have nothing to hide".
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Re:The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove
by lern_too_spel on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:30PM
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The only domestic "mass surveillance" program in Snowden's dumps was phone metadata collection, which everyone did know about since 2006. https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-n...
The sensational parts of Greenwald's reporting were not supported by Snowden's documents or any other documents. Anybody who parrots those claims will rightfully be called a tinfoil hatter.
Re:The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove
by mxd3 on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:42PM
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What? Really? Can you provide any context on embellishments by Greenwald?
Re:The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove
by lern_too_spel on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:33PM
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"The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants"
His unsubstantiated sensational claims start in the first sentence of his first article and continue from there.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...