Edward Snowden, born on this day in 1983, is an American whistleblower who leaked highly classified information from the NSA in 2013 when he was working as a CIA employee, exposing multiple governments' widespread surveillance programs.

Snowden's disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments, prompting a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy.

In 2013, the United States Department of Justice unsealed charges against Snowden of two counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and theft of government property, revoking his passport. Two days later, he flew into a Moscow Airport, where Russian authorities noted that his U.S. passport had been canceled, and he could not leave the airport terminal for over one month.

Russia later granted Snowden the right of asylum with an initial visa for residence for one year, and he continues to reside there on extension today.

"Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American."

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  • THC
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    1 year ago

    Apparently as 'protest' some sfw subreddits are spamming porn. To quote one comment about it:

    Redditors are the only people on earth smug enough to post unwarranted porn in a subreddit not meant for it, lean back in their disgusting gamer chair and really believe they just stuck it to the corpos that own them.

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      The mods didn't want to lose their moderator positions, so they kept their subs open, but they still wanna stick it to reddit. So they "attacked" reddit's ad line of business and for now reddit doesn't serve ads next to NSFW content. I have no idea how much that's actually worth to reddit cause presumably they couldve served ads on apolloor whatever and still did what they did. They probably could've just marked the sub as NSFW and not even posted porn, but I guess it was more of a spectacle to get porn showing up on the front page.

      • 187_Invitation [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        They banned the entire mod teams for the big subs that did that. Idk if that means it did fuck with their add revenue but they did remove them pretty quickly.

    • DiltoGeggins [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Yes that's weird.. but then again, reddit has always been fairly porn fwd which isn't surprising.