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As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it otherizes us.

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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
Computer Scientist
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Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Edward Joseph Snowden
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The question is: Particularly in the post-9/11 era, are societies becoming more liberal or more authoritarian?
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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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I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.
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The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.
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We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.
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Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.
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On the other hand, the Internet is there to fill needs that people have for information and socialization. We get this sort of identification thing going on nowadays because it's a very fractious time. We live in a time of troubles.
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Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people raised eyebrows and called you a conspiracy theorist. Those days are over.
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I was living a charmed life.
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My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.
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All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.
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If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?
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Russia recently passed a law - I think a terrible law - which says you have to store all of the data from Russian citizens on Russian soil just to prevent other countries from playing the same kind of legal games we're playing in this Microsoft case.
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The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.
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What is right is not always the same as what is legal
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We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare it's also about revolutionary ideas.
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We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.
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No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign countries. But we need to think about where to draw the line on these kind of operations so we're not always attacking our allies, the people we trust, the people we need to rely on, and to have them in turn rely on us.
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I'm still working for the government.
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The New York Times and The Guardian came out and said, Hey, clemency for Snowden. But for me, the key - and I've said this from the beginning: it's not about me. I don't care if I get clemency. I don't care what happens to me.
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