Snowden Gives Alternative Christmas Message On Channel 4 224
codeusirae wrote in with news that Edward Snowden gave an alternative to the UK's yearly Christmas message, speaking about his objections to mass indiscriminate surveillance by governments. The message aired on channel four at 16:15. Slashgear posted a transcript. Quoting: "Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person. A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves — an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that's a problem, because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be."
Re:no privacy in your own thought..? (Score:3, Interesting)
Watch the NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice videos on my website. Link provided in first post.
"they doing this to control people"
Link again: http://www.oregonstatehospital.net/d/russelltice-nsarnmebl.html [oregonstatehospital.net]
Re:Enough (Score:2, Interesting)
Well, if someone fscking picked up the ball, there would be no need for him to speak up again. But just like the hush machine stifled all information about the totally non-working, systematically broken secret quasi-oversight, now the "is he a traitor" distraction is fully working and fscking nobody articulates what the consequences and vision of a life without privacy are. The closest to a serious comment I have seen is what Pamela Jones wrote [groklaw.net] before shuttering Groklaw. [groklaw.net]
Short of that: nothing. I can't believe that humanity is so totally broken that Snowden was the only person with a conscience in the NSA (well, there are quite a few documented to have been silenced), and now is basically the only person telling people what privacy is about.
It's time the fscking sheep started doing some thinking for themselves, or he'll be better off trying to convince Russians about the value of freedom, privacy, and democratic control.
U.S. citizens clearly don't understand its value any more and are satisfied sinking further and further into despondency.