The alternate history where Snowden stayed in Hong Kong and gradually fell afoul of the National Security Law is fascinating to imagine. Still, I think we can find a middle ground here and agree that the man made some naive layover decisions at best.https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1432818700336443392 …
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As an interesting coda, two years after Snowden fled to Hong Kong, Chinese authorities abducted booksellers in the territory and brought them to the mainland in violation of the same treaties Snowden thought were strong enough to protect his document trovehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearances …
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In my view, though, the greatest long-term harm to American national interests from Snowden's leaks is that they distracted from the growth of a much larger and invasive apparatus of unregulated private-sector surveillance that would dwarf anything the NSA attempted to build.
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The rather derpy secret project of government surveillance Snowden exposed distracted from the fact that it's the existence of a microscope into your private life that matters, not who looks through the eyepiece. And we let private sector surveillance grow to dominate our economy
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But here's the story I really want to know: what became of Assange's cat?
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I remember at the time his decision of choosing Hong Kong because of its “unique freedoms” in the region being lauded in the Western media as evidence of a meticulous plan. From that alone, I could tell he was really winging it.
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