Link to article from main Lemmy❤️ developer about Signal privacy. Mostly fair points. I kinda distrust so centralized services but basically we have no other options (Matrix is buggy in many aspects). What can you say about this article?

    • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
      182·
      1 year ago

      Snowden doesn’t make any public statements any more without express permission from the Russian government.

      Can you provide sources for this?

      It might make sense for him to self-censor to avoid angering one of the few places that are allowing him to stay but even that’s not a given: if he felt something needed to be said badly enough, he’s shown to be the type of person who would rather something be said and take the repercussions on the nose than to leave something unsaid.

      • Shit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        I mean he fled the country to not deal with the repercussions of what he said? Self censoring speaks volumes.

        • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
          82·
          1 year ago

          Can you provide sources for this?

          The source is that Russia murders its own oligarchs the second they fall out of Putin’s favor, and ships anyone who holds up a blank sign in protest of the regime gets shipped off to the front lines. No way that man would survive a second if he ever went against the party line. Which means he hasn’t done so.

          A simple no would have been sufficient. I’m not interested in baseless speculation. I had hoped you had actual evidence, which would intrigue me greatly. As it is, I have someone’s imagination put to paper.

          If I were him, I’d get on the next plane to the US and happily spend the rest of my life in Leavenworth rather than allow myself to become a propaganda tool for a bunch of genocidal fascists.

          He’s not saying anything. He’s not being a propaganda tool. You can make a rather weasily attempt to say his not denouncing something is in essence supporting it and thus being a propaganda tool, but that’s a stretch and rather disingenuous.

    • figaro@lemdro.id
      81·
      1 year ago

      All of these comments are completely off the rails. He informed us about one of the largest violations of privacy in the history of mankind. For that, he had to go on the run. He ended up in Russia, but not by choice.

      If he wants to retire there and just keep his mouth shut, he should have our fucking blessing. The one thing he did was bigger than anything we could ever hope to accomplish lol.

    • Rose@lemmy.world
      35·
      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t go as far as to say he asks for permission, but it’s very clear that he is effectively a Russian propagandist now that he’s choosing to be left alone in exchange for focusing on bashing the US and being quiet about Putin’s regime even despite the invasion.