Re: [WedTech] Fwd: Russia Grants Snowden 1-Year Asylum -NYTimes.com
Posted by
Owen Densmore on
Aug 08, 2013; 2:50am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-WedTech-Fwd-Russia-Grants-Snowden-1-Year-Asylum-NYTimes-com-tp7583572p7583590.html
This, I think, is a good expression of the whole Snowden phenomenon:
-- Owen
As a U.S. citizen I am implicated in what the NSA does, and I want it to succeed in discovering those who would harm us. My concern, as a writer and journalism professor, is with another fight: the one for public knowledge, for sunlight, for the facts to come out so we know what’s going on. I am primarily interested in the journalism that Edward Snowden has set in motion, and the gains in public knowledge that have resulted from his actions, which I have called the Snowden effect.
The question that bothers me most can be put this way:
Can there even be an informed public and consent-of-the-governed for decisions about electronic surveillance, or have we put those principles aside so that the state can have its freedom to maneuver?
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