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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by oskarth on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @02:58PM (#9299024)
That's absolutely ridiculous. I assume the same didn't happen for Citizen Four (which was actually a real movie as opposed to a thinly disguised hit piece).

You should name and shame the company, even if you do so anonymously.

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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by binfalse on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @11:27PM (#9301351)
I don't know where OP worked but Yahoo 'treated' its employees to Fifth Estate. Everyone was given a ticket (or 2) to an afternoon showing at the Shoreline theater. And no, Citizen Four did not get the same treatment.

Any Googlers want to chime in?

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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by jacquesm on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:07PM (#9299084)
No, he doesn't have to name and shame any company. It's enough to know that such activities happen.
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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by Lawtonfogle on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:13PM (#9299132)
I'm not going to turn in the theif. It is enough to know that people will steal.

(The difference here being that in one case the government is the judge/jury/executioner and in the other it is the realm of public opinion.)

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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by jacquesm on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:17PM (#9299160)
No, it's not that. It's that it may very well be possible to trace this conversation back to a single person and that could easily jeopardize that persons employment.
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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by Lawtonfogle on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @04:44PM (#9299761)
That is a separate (and I personally think far more valid) argument. My protest was against the argument, not against the outcome.
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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by Create on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:41PM (#9299324)
We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.

This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html

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