Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse
by sudosysgen on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:53AM
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Snowden cannot live anywhere else. He tried. The arms of the US government are too long, and he is prevented by the US from leaving Russia. Sure, there is going to be interference, but he doesn't have a choice. It's either that or be kidnapped.
Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse
by marssaxman on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:24PM
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Snowden didn't move to Russia; he got stuck there, accidentally, because he happened to be transiting through the Moscow airport on his way to Ecuador at the moment the US revoked his passport. He proceeded to spend over a month living in the airport, still trying to leave, before giving up and applying for asylum in Russia. He's not there because he wants to be, but because his only other choice is a US prison.
A high profile political-ish person cannot live there without interference from government. You are naive on the subject or deliberately lying if you do not believe that is true. Information on this is easily accessible to you. Especially after Ukraine, when there's so many stories of prominent Russians being labelled "foreign agents" by their government for merely having opinions.
It is not an exaggeration to say it's like Nazi Germany there now. Even well before, they were doing political assassinations at home and abroad and false flags in Chechnya. Snowden and Greenwald both are clearly on the wrong side of that issue. It was clear even in 2013 if you were paying attention that Putin's Russia was less free than the United States. So it's a very, very strange thing to do to move there after being concerned about civil liberties.