Re:Snowden a 'traitor': Andreessen
by tripzilch on Monday June 09, 2014 @10:22AM
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> The valence of Andreesen's feelings about Snowden isn't at all weird.
Of course it's weird. In one breath he says Snowden gave US national security secrets out to "everybody on the planet" and then proceeds to claim what came out shouldn't be surprising because everyone could have known already.
Either it's public knowledge or it's secret.
And that's not even counting the public knowledge and suspicions that, a year ago, simply weren't taken seriously because they was too far into tinfoil hat territory.
Now we know for sure that shit is going on, and people can form a real opinion about it and speak up about those opinions without immediately being labelled a paranoid schizophrenic, because we can't deny it any more either.
Read that again maybe, if you don't see how that's a huge deal, even if his revelations were merely things we already sort-of knew and suspected.
If that's not weird, it's at least stupid and disingenuous.
BTW there was no reason (at all) to insinuate the idea of Snowden working together with the FSB in the first sentence of that post of yours, similarly as there's no evidence at all that you're hired as part of one of those psyops campaigns to downplay all things related to Snowden/NSA here on HN, none at all. You know I feel really dirty for just writing this and planting that idea? Why didn't you?
Of course it's weird. In one breath he says Snowden gave US national security secrets out to "everybody on the planet" and then proceeds to claim what came out shouldn't be surprising because everyone could have known already.
Either it's public knowledge or it's secret.
And that's not even counting the public knowledge and suspicions that, a year ago, simply weren't taken seriously because they was too far into tinfoil hat territory.
Now we know for sure that shit is going on, and people can form a real opinion about it and speak up about those opinions without immediately being labelled a paranoid schizophrenic, because we can't deny it any more either.
Read that again maybe, if you don't see how that's a huge deal, even if his revelations were merely things we already sort-of knew and suspected.
If that's not weird, it's at least stupid and disingenuous.
BTW there was no reason (at all) to insinuate the idea of Snowden working together with the FSB in the first sentence of that post of yours, similarly as there's no evidence at all that you're hired as part of one of those psyops campaigns to downplay all things related to Snowden/NSA here on HN, none at all. You know I feel really dirty for just writing this and planting that idea? Why didn't you?