Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow

Re:Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow by chj on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @01:50AM (#5976078)

Both countries especially CHINA has a bad reputation on communication regulation (network shutdown on some occasions) and censorship. There is no need for WikiLeaks to break anything new here.

US government has been riding a high horse and teaching everybody about internet freedom, and now they are caught pants down. That's a lot of more worthy of news than exposing already known bad guys.

I find it deeply troubling that majority voices in USA are now accusing Snowden / WikiLeaks of damaging USA reputation or things like that.

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Re:Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow by embolism on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @01:19PM (#5986062)

For all its flaws, the US is still far ahead of China and Russia on these issues.

The recent rhetoric has presents the US as the worst offender of all when in practice it's probably better than anyone else who has the power to do these things (including the UK).

What if you take the US position at face value? There is oversight, and there are real and serious threats from terrorism and cyberattacks.

Is it good to have a massive secret signals collection apparatus? No.

Is it necessary? We don't know and nobody is even discussing that because we're all too busy bashing the US.

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