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Edward Snowden: Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance
Whistleblowers are outliers of probability, and if they are to be effective as a political force, it’s critical that they maximize the amount of public good produced from scarce seed.
Article from Inside the Assassination Complex by Jeremy Scahill and The Staff of The Intercept.
Related: November 2015 Interview with Lena Sundström. Photos Lotta Härdelin. (Dagens Nyheter)
Whistleblowers are outliers of probability, and if they are to be effective as a political force, it’s critical that they maximize the amount of public good produced from scarce seed.
Article from Inside the Assassination Complex by Jeremy Scahill and The Staff of The Intercept.
Related: November 2015 Interview with Lena Sundström. Photos Lotta Härdelin. (Dagens Nyheter)
Related: Panama Papers source breaks silence over 'scale of injustices' (and related to that and the first comment, US launches crackdown on international tax evasion)
posted by effbot at 10:16 AM on May 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by effbot at 10:16 AM on May 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
This is the biggest black mark on an administration that I otherwise strongly support.
Drones, Guantánamo, domestic spying, erosion of journalistic protections, failure to take a proper stance on encryption or net neutrality, continued drug war (and seizure of property), further militarization of police, lack of transparency…I could go on.
Lack of whistleblower protection is definitely on the list, but I find it a bit hard to pick which is the biggest black mark.
I'm sure it'll get better under either of the two frontrunners though. Snowden is sure to get a pardon!
posted by cjorgensen at 10:23 AM on May 6, 2016 [15 favorites]
Drones, Guantánamo, domestic spying, erosion of journalistic protections, failure to take a proper stance on encryption or net neutrality, continued drug war (and seizure of property), further militarization of police, lack of transparency…I could go on.
Lack of whistleblower protection is definitely on the list, but I find it a bit hard to pick which is the biggest black mark.
I'm sure it'll get better under either of the two frontrunners though. Snowden is sure to get a pardon!
posted by cjorgensen at 10:23 AM on May 6, 2016 [15 favorites]
Crap, forgot record deportations.
And for the record, I too strongly support this administration. He just got a lot wrong.
posted by cjorgensen at 10:25 AM on May 6, 2016 [7 favorites]
And for the record, I too strongly support this administration. He just got a lot wrong.
posted by cjorgensen at 10:25 AM on May 6, 2016 [7 favorites]
The goal is to deploy solar-powered drones that can loiter in the air for weeks without coming down. Once you can do that, and you put any typical signals collection device on the bottom of it to monitor, unblinkingly, the emanations of, for example, the different network addresses of every laptop, smartphone, and iPod, you know not just where a particular device is in what city, but you know what apartment each device lives in, where it goes at any particular time, and by what route. ... By preying on the modern necessity to stay connected, governments can reduce our dignity to something like that of tagged animals, the primary difference being that we paid for the tags and they’re in our pockets.
Yikes! Thanks for the link, OP.
posted by Bella Donna at 1:12 PM on May 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
Yikes! Thanks for the link, OP.
posted by Bella Donna at 1:12 PM on May 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
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This is the biggest black mark on an administration that I otherwise strongly support.
posted by leotrotsky at 10:00 AM on May 6, 2016 [7 favorites]