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How we take back the internet | Edward Snowden

TED · 3.4M views · 2014-03-19 · 35:18

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Edward Snowden appears by telepresence robot at TED2014 to discuss surveillance, privacy rights, and Internet freedom, interviewed by Chris Anderson with Tim Berners-Lee.

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Mostly referenced in debates about Snowden and surveillance rather than recommended; some commenters criticize his statements.

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wpdev_63 · 2018-06 · Criticism

O like the faceless judges that grant thousands of warrants? There's no accountability and it's absolutely criminal. [VIDEO]

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csandreasen · 2015-04 · Criticism

Your own link contradicts your definition: In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent (also double secret agent) is an employee of a secret intelligence service, whose primary purpose is to spy on a different target organization, but who, in fact, is a member of the target organization. In other words, if Snowden worked for the NSA and spied on China or Russia, but at the same time was passing information over to China or Russia, he would then be a double agent. That's why it's so fishy when he repeatedly says that he specifically used to work on Chinese targets (for example: [1]), chose to flee the US and go to China, and his 3rd leak in the news was giving a Chinese newspaper a list of all of Chinese computers that had been targeted by the NSA[2]. That doesn't mean he's a double-agent, but it certainly raises some eyebrows... [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]

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ZirconCode · 2014-03 · Reference

I think this is a response to the recent TED talk where the same question was asked: [VIDEO] The host provides the theory that the vote is not biased based on left or right wing beliefs.

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