I personally do, he actually risked his life to release information about the government spying on people. And there are for sure more advanced ways now. Even your phone is listening.

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
    36·
    14 days ago

    Yeah the details which helped foreign adversaries. That’s the definition of treason.

    If he said “The NSA is spying on everyone” there wouldn’t be a story. The details that aided foreign adversaries made it a story about him being on the run from intelligence agencies and made it an interesting story. You want it to be a story about someone doing the right thing and blowing the whistle, but it didn’t actually reveal anything we didn’t already know in the broad sense, it only revealed secrets that aided foreign adversaries.

    • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      14 days ago

      The term “foreign adversaries” is doing a lot of work.

      We’re supposed to automatically believe that any country who is at odds with US capital and foreign policy (not an actual enemy, so it’s not treason to aid them) is an inherently in the wrong and evil by fiat.

      And that’s just not the case. And if fact as has been recently demonstrated, a country that was described as a great “ally” of America, who’s illegal spying we’ve turned a blind eye to, has turned out to be anything but and are committing some of the worst crimes in recent history and is causing a demonstrable harm to this country.