Live now. Snowden quotes:
“The costs of curiosity of expression and exploration became too dire. When you speak online, you have to double down to defend what you said instead of admitting mistake. This wrongdoing cannot be forgiven en masse or forgiven.
What is the purpose of privacy? Why is its loss do dangerous? Privacy protects the right of inquiry that leads to progress.
Privacy is not to hide; it’s to protect. It’s a right. It protects the right to think differently. Rights protect the minority.
Trying something new is the engine of all human progress. All ideas we hold dear come from privacy, even ‘private property’.
We have a right to privacy when the people who write the rules went through a revolution. They were recently a minority.
Bitcoin sucks in many ways, such as financial privacy.
Technology is a magnifier of power. In the early days, the government sucked at using it. It was academics at first.
The internet is broken because it reflects a broken society. Institutions are competing against the individual while individuals compete among themselves. Everything is for the likes, for that shining moment, to leave that shining hellscape behind to garner the attention of those we care about. We are set against each other in a daily talent show. We pay for the privilege to compete in a contest that we cannot win. Society cannot win.
The dissatisfaction of the masses can be managed by distraction. By entertainment. By division of identity that is amplified all over the place.
The government has burned and spent the wealth of a generation that will never enjoy its fruits.
Liberty is freedom. There is no freedom from risk in a free and fair society. You need to have a risk of failure. Risk is the source of progress.
Don’t Stay Safe. Stay free,”
“I think I get the social distancing crown”
-Edward Snowden
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