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Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Let's be honest, virtually every other country would have extradited him.
North Korea or China might've been other options, but hardly better ones. Norway maybe, but they had shown to also cave to American pressure by prosecuting the founders of pirate bay.
No great options, really.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    Yeah. Probably had to worry about illegal snatch and grabs too. It's just ironic that he had to turn to autocrats who use much of the same tactics he warned about.

    Of course our views on Russia in 2013 were quite different to what they are now, but we always kind of knew they were a mafia state with varying levels of dedication to "playing along" on the world stage.

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