• Sarah@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Sounds ok except for living in Russia.

    Edward Snowden is a permanent resident and naturalized citizen of Russia, living in Moscow with his wife and two sons. Granted citizenship by President Vladimir Putin in 2022, he remains in exile to avoid prosecution in the US under the Espionage Act. Snowden continues to criticize Russian policy while working in IT and presiding over the Freedom of the Press Foundation

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      7 months ago

      Living in Russia and criticizing russian policy sounds like how those intrusive thoughts about jumping from windows get into your head…

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        7 months ago

        They’ll probably give him some leeway since they’d rather have him living there as a fuck you to the USA and constant reminder of how fucked up the USA is as well.

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      7 months ago

      Thanks for the update. I didn’t know he had children, but I guess life moves on. I still think it is absolutely shameful that Europe wasn’t and isn’t able to allow Snowden to live in Europe.

  • Almacca@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

    I remember a few years ago John Oliver flew to Russia to interview him. He showed him a bunch of vox pop interviews of young people in America asking if they knew who Edward Snowden was and what he did, and almost all of them had no idea.

    You could visibly see him die inside after watching it.

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    7 months ago

    I do understand why the state wants to prosecute him, but I also think the public deserved to know what Snowden revealed. It’s definitely the kind of thing the pardon power was created for, not for drug lords to bribe their way back into freedom.

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      7 months ago

      The american public are just overworked sheep… the proof they did not deserve this info, is in that they got it and literally did nothing about it.

      To this day poeple won’t stop using Meta and Twitter and there are 29 extra reasons to never touch those platforms again

    • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      I do understand why the state wants to prosecute him

      Because he exposed the state for being a massively illegal and corrupt pile of shit directly perpetrating crimes against not just the American public, but the world at large?

      Like yeah, I understand why cartels kill informants, that doesn’t make them justified in doing so.