| Snowden Holiday Message: No Conception of Privacy Rod Bastanmehr - AlterNet | |
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Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden appeared in a televised Christmas message released to the British public by TV station Channel 4 on Wednesday. (AssociatedPress)
American whistleblower, hacker, hero to some, traitor to others, Edward Snowden showed his christmas spirit when he took part in the UK channel 4’s annual "Alternative Christmas Message,” which, since 1993, has included such headline-grabbing notables as former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Sharon Osbourne.
... In the video, Snowden lambasts the United States’ surveillance tactics, citing the alarming similarity to writer George Orwell’s description of a dystopian future in “1984,” which showed a world under constant surveillance by the state.
“A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all,” Snowden explains.
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