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Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time?

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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
Computer Scientist
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System Administrator
Whistleblower
Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Edward Joseph Snowden
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The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate.
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Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures.
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We decentralise the ability to decide the level of publicity that's attached to any of our communications.
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Privacy is a function of liberty.
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The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security, just so they have a better chance of keeping an eye on us.
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When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.
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You shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to you. You don't want to hack the power plant from your house if you don't want them to follow the trail back and see your IP address.
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What we're seeing now, or starting to see, is an atomization of the Internet community. Before, everybody went only to a few sites now we've got all these boutiques.
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I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.
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I would rather be without a state than without a voice.
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Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are empowered by technology in a way that no government ever was in the past?
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There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.
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I'm still working for the government.
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I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.
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You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.
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There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more. They've just discovered a significant violation of the German Constitution that had been concealed from the Parliament.
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The question of whether I, as a whistleblower, should be pardoned, is not for me to answer.
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When the US government got word that I was planning to leave Russia to go to Latin America, they brought down the plane of the - the presidential plane, which had diplomatic protection, that had the Bolivian president on board. They closed the airspace in four different countries in Europe, I believe, which was extraordinary, unprecedented.
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While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair. These rulings simply corrupt the most basic notion of justice - that it must be seen to be done. The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
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I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective.
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