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Re:Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual int... by jcrites on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:27PM (#28083000)
What do you mean by Snowden's post? He didn't make a post. He handed over classified material to journalists, who made decisions about what was in the public interest to publish in their newspapers.

Maybe in the years since he's written a blog or an article in the news (he's given a number of speeches or attended events), but that wasn't how he blew the whistle to the public on the fact that the NSA was wiretapping the entire Internet, including the communication of ordinary Americans.

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Re:Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual int... by implying on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:42PM (#28083090)
Did you not even read the url, let alone the article? This is Edward Snowden's blog.
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Re:Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual int... by jcrites on Friday August 06, 2021 @03:55PM (#28092031)
I read the blog post, but not the URL (Do browsers show the full URL any more?). I scrolled directly down to the content. I didn't realize he was the author.

He's a surprisingly insightful author, then.

The first post in the series (this is the second) makes it clear that this is part of his personal story:

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-pt1

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