06-18-2018, 12:56 PM
(06-18-2018, 12:32 PM)Millhouse Wrote: However Snowden believed it was unethical on what they were doing and exposed it, and then was branded as a traitor and Obama even referred to him as a 29 year old hacker. Which goes to what was mentioned above, as some things are leaked for good public image, but Snowden was demonized because it hurt Obama's and others public image.
Snowden demonized himself by going to China and Russia. If he was really in favor of more freedom those are the last places he should have gone with US secrets.
We need to be able to operate in secret because that is the way other spies and terrorists operate. Where to draw the line and who gets to draw the line are very complicated issues. But we can't just have all information open to the public.
Until someone posts some information about US citizens being silenced or imprisoned for political opinions I am not that freaked out about the government doing some spying. Our secret operations are aimed at protecting us instead of rounding up citizens as political prisoners.
Remember all the squealing about how The Patriot Act was the "end of freedom" in the United States? Now no one even mentions it.
