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snowden on "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" (midwest.social)

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Snowden is not a paragon of privacy morality one should seek to emulate; his actions are incredibly hypocritical to pretend to care about privacy after invading everyone else’s privacy, then bouncing to a hostile foreign nation.

Instead, a quote like this would do:

Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will. No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century