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How we take back the internet | Edward Snowden

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Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. "Your rights matter," he say, "because you never know when you're going to need them." Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.

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O like the faceless judges that grant thousands of warrants? There's no accountability and it's absolutely criminal. https://youtu.be/yVwAodrjZMY?t=7m31s
Your own link contradicts your definition:

In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent (also double secret agent) is an employee of a secret intelligence service, whose primary purpose is to spy on a different target organization, but who, in fact, is a member of the target organization.

In other words, if Snowden worked for the NSA and spied on China or Russia, but at the same time was passing information over to China or Russia, he would then be a double agent. That's why it's so fishy when he repeatedly says that he specifically used to work on Chinese targets (for example: [1]), chose to flee the US and go to China, and his 3rd leak in the news was giving a Chinese newspaper a list of all of Chinese computers that had been targeted by the NSA[2].

That doesn't mean he's a double-agent, but it certainly raises some eyebrows...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwAodrjZMY#t=7m16s

[2] http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1260306/edward-sn...

May 15, 2014 · 5 points, 0 comments · submitted by zachlatta
Mar 19, 2014 · 12 points, 0 comments · submitted by beniaminmincu
Mar 19, 2014 · ZirconCode on [Missing Story]
I think this is a response to the recent TED talk where the same question was asked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwAodrjZMY

The host provides the theory that the vote is not biased based on left or right wing beliefs.

Mar 19, 2014 · 7 points, 0 comments · submitted by amima
Mar 19, 2014 · 13 points, 0 comments · submitted by abhshkdz
Mar 19, 2014 · 15 points, 0 comments · submitted by 3rd3
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