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Re:Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic h... by DaSHacka on Monday August 26, 2024 @03:48PM (#41361077)
> Probably not, Snowden is part of the Russian Spy and Disinformation campaign. He is basically a Russian agent.

love when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation"

Re:Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic h... by busterarm on Monday August 26, 2024 @03:59PM (#41361210)
and love the people that only apply this thinking in a foreign policy context and not domestic because it's inconvenient to their party...
Re:Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic h... by JumpCrisscross on Monday August 26, 2024 @03:52PM (#41361123)
> when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation"

That's not what disinformation means. Disinformation is a polite way of saying lies [1].

[1] https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/schwerpunkte/EN/disinform...

Re:Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic h... by ChumpGPT on Monday August 26, 2024 @03:53PM (#41361146)
Really? How convenient for you to just blame the USA and list France as an affiliate. If the USA wanted him (Durov), they could have arrested him a long time ago.

Why doesn't Snowden speak about the horrors of the Russian war in Ukraine where woman and children are raped and shot?

He only speaks when it is beneficial for his masters.

Re:Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic h... by vgb2k18 on Monday August 26, 2024 @05:03PM (#41362154)
"Why doesn't Snowden speak about...", this would be because he likes breathing.
Re:Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic h... by ath3nd on Monday August 26, 2024 @03:59PM (#41361207)
> love when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation"

I thought and still think that Snowden is a brave and righteous man for airing the US government's dirty laundry.

Not him becoming a Russian citizen, but rather his silence on the bloody war of Putin, however, makes me think that I should take Snowden's words with a pinch of salt.

Re:Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic h... by 0cf8612b2e1e on Monday August 26, 2024 @04:07PM (#41361342)
He is living in Russia. A place where government critics have a tendency to defenestrate themselves.

That he is not openly endorsing the current government might be as much latitude as he is allowed.

Re:Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic h... by ScottBurson on Monday August 26, 2024 @04:12PM (#41361415)
Do you really think Putin would hesitate to arrest him if he did that?

Snowden knows he is being watched closely. I suppose that is itself a reason to take what he says with a grain of salt, but I certainly don't take his silence on the Ukraine war as evidence of assent.

Re:Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic h... by ath3nd on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @06:01AM (#41365906)
It's just not like Snowden of the past to endorse apps with bad privacy defaults and non encrypted group chats like Telegram. I'd have understood if he had said the same if the CEO of Signal was arrested, but I can't understand it for Telegram, an app that's mostly not used in an e2e encrypted way.

Telegram is also an app that is widely used by Russian troops to organize and also for dissemination of propaganda and misinformation. It's just not characteristic of Snowden to endorse apps that could potentially be honeypots/backdoored, and to equate such apps as important to free speech.

Re:Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic h... by JAlexoid on Monday August 26, 2024 @04:33PM (#41361755)
> love when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation"

This tweet is literally plain propaganda move, as it has little to do with human rights... and Snowden has been a treasure trove of Russian sponsored propaganda lately.

To the point of me thinking that his Twitter is just some FSB agent writing posts for him.