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Should Quotes by Edward Snowden

22 Should quotes by Edward Snowden

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Edward Snowden presents 22 forthright observations on the responsibilities we bear in a digital age. His words, forged by experience, probe the tension between privacy, transparency, and civic duty, offering a nuanced look at what it means to act ethically when information flows freely.

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The question of whether I, as a whistleblower, should be pardoned, is not for me to answer.

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Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement…

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We are all today being monitored in advance and in criminal suspicion. And I think that's terrifying, and deeply illiberal as concept.…

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Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

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What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should…

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We should know at least the broad strokes of the powers that the government's claiming in our name, and using allegedly, on…

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We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening…

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It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

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As a general rule, US-based multinationals should not be trusted until they prove otherwise. This is sad, because they have the capability…

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For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to…

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In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned,…

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America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment,…

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The government would assert that individuals who are aware of serious wrongdoing in the intelligence community should bring their concerns to the…

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I saw things that reached a point that I could no longer conscientiously participate with them. And I simply do what I…

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We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale.…

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As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the…

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What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this…

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I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for…

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It's OK if we wiretap Osama bin Laden. I want to know what he's planning - obviously not him nowadays, but that…

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There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example…

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It's critical how we want to use these spy programs, these electronic capabilities, where we want to draw the line, and who…

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We're opening the doors to people launching missiles and dropping bombs by taking the human out of the decision chain for deciding…

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It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

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Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I…

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If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political…

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The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

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As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under…

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[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data…

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You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to…

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We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

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A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed…

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Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical…

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There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold…

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We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.

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It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in…

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If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire…

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I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree…

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