I personally do, he actually risked his life to release information about the government spying on people. And there are for sure more advanced ways now. Even your phone is listening.

  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
    213·
    7 hours ago

    Most of us here are more of a hero, because we had the backbone to never actually work for those fascist services to begin with.

    • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
      71·
      7 hours ago

      “Most of us here are more of a hero” Did you risk your life too? Did you release knowledge of government wrong doings, or similar? I doubt most people here did. I assume he did have some knowledge of spying but not to that scale.

      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
        110·
        7 hours ago

        You missed the point. To get that kind of knowledge, he first had to subscribe to the evil team. Which he did. It would be different if he had joined from the beginning with the motive to expose unlawful practices by the services. It is more heroic to not join team evil in the first place.

          • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 minute ago

            Guess what, I even read “No place to hide” by Glenn Greenwald / Ed Snowden. I never said Snowden is bad, but he was naive and quite fucking stupid to think he was working for “the good guys” initially. I am glad he had a change of heart and did what he did. Nevertheless it is more heroic to stay away from evil deeds than change your mind after partaking and then step away.