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"If you think privacy is unimportant for you because you have nothing to hide, you might as well say free speech is unimportant for you because you have nothing useful to say." -snowden

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Do people worship snowden BECAUSE they never bothered to learn what NSA's charter is, and that almost everything snowden cites was published in the open years before? Cf James Bamford for example.

Person A: I saw aliens at area 51 you can read about it in my latest book.

Person B: Here are 25,000 documents from Area 51 that prove the existence of aliens.

Who gets the most credit\fame\whatever?

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