"Snowden’s mindset seems similar to me. He told The Guardian that, as a teenager, he considered the Internet 'the most important invention in all of human history' because it connected him to 'people with all sorts of views that I would never have encountered on my own.' But, as an adult, he increasingly worried that surveillance was destroying the Web. The same invention he believed could liberate mankind was becoming a tool of oppression."
Noam Scheiber at The New Republic reacts to the National Security Agency leaks.
And Alec MacGillis "welcomes the uproar."
Monday, June 10, 2013
"To Understand Edward Snowden's Motivations, Look to Aaron Swartz"
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