So, it's been years since Snowden leaked all those document Jow Forumsents.
Has anything changed? Was his act of disobedience worth it?
Also, hero or traitor?
Snowden
Cameron Nelson
Owen Collins
Nothing changes, ever.
Things like that have no impact on a society like ours.
>Also, hero or traitor?
Doesn't really matter. Dumb enough to once think The US was a decent government. The whole system is full of traitors who become whistleblowers when someone higher up does not like something about them, the ones higher up being just as much traitors, just not against their own kind, not publicly at least, only towards the citizens.
Joshua Sullivan
>Has anything changed?
Little bit, maybe
>Was his act of disobedience worth it?
I think it was worth it(If it wouldn't for him we'll be playing guessing game till today)
>hero or traitor?
nor hero nor traitor
Justin Smith
>time elapses
>people forget about it
pretty much all that happened
Xavier Butler
I think he tried to do the right thing then fucked up by going to Russia instead of turning himself in. He's right that the government doesn't protect contractor whistleblowers but he lost his credibility by running away. People call him a traitor and compare him to Manning who was an actual traitor. There's a good chance he would have gotten a light sentence or would have been commuted. Manning got 30 years because he leaked info out of revenge but real whistleblowers got light sentences for what they did.
Cameron Davis
>instead of turning himself in.
he would have ended up in jail for 30+ years... in a max security penitentiary.
Eli Ortiz
>Has anything changed?
HTTPS. That's absolutely it.
Gavin Lopez
>Has anything changed?
Things took a turn for the worse but that's not his fault.
>Also, hero or traitor?
Does it really matter? He is definitely no traitor but to call him a hero?
Bentley Flores
>not turning yourself in to the botnet is considered running away
Ian Brown
Manning was a traitor to the government, but not to the American people.