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Re:Demonizing Edward Snowden by mgkimsal on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @08:31AM (#5938935)
"His failure to criticize these regimes suggests that his true motive throughout has been to injure the national security of the U.S., not to advance Internet freedom and free speech."

Perhaps the only way you can advance free speech necessarily involves injuring the US national security?

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Re:Demonizing Edward Snowden by pekk on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @09:19AM (#5939188)
Or - to be the devil's advocate - perhaps the only way to advance free speech is to defect to North Korea (like Joe Dresnok)? Or give secrets to Israel (like Jonathan Pollard) or China (like Peter Lee) or Russia (like Robert Hanssen)? I mean, who really knows what could turn out to be the only possible way to advance free speech? With the US as the "biggest villain," perhaps absolutely anything done to oppose the US is the only possible way to advance free speech?
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Re:Demonizing Edward Snowden by PavlovsCat on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @09:14AM (#5939155)
His failure to criticize these regimes suggests

that he is not a citizen of them. He actually cares about what he personally is responsible for, what is done in his name, rather than what is easy to bash and a useful distraction from one's own crimes.

Hah, that was easy...

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