for freedom

Creola 2022-03-29 09:01:05

I still remember after watching "Fahrenheit 911", the reporter asked the crowd if you were willing to give up some of your freedom for safety.

Some voted in the affirmative, thinking it was a reasonable sacrifice.

However, when all emails, text messages, call logs, call durations are monitored, is the answer still the same?

As J. Applebaum said at the European Conference Hearings in "Citizen Four" to investigate the NSA's surveillance of EU citizens and companies, "What we used to call freedom is now privacy, and at the same time, we say Privacy is dead, we lose privacy, we lose the medium, we lose freedom itself"

So the question is, what is the degree here?

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  • Flavio 2022-04-22 07:01:40

    everyone should watch this

  • Octavia 2022-03-21 09:02:31

    Snowden's composure in front of the camera is nothing short of golden. A very shocking documentary, tense to the point of suffocation, which shows the tenacity and powerlessness of an individual against the state apparatus. In contrast to the reality, it seems that each of us lives under the sun, and we talk about courage, responsibility, and morality every day, but few people have the courage to resist. When freedom has become a luxury, we are all frogs in warm water, lying comfortably in the iron pot that is about to kill us.

Citizenfour quotes

  • Ewen MacAskill: What are you... tell me your thoughts, just where you are with that?

    Edward Snowden: So primary one on that, I think I've expressed it a couple times online, is I feel the modern media has a big focus on personalities.

    Ewen MacAskill: Totally.

    Edward Snowden: And I'm a little concerned that the more we focus on that the more they're going to use that as a distraction. I don't necessarily want that to happen, which is why I've consistently said, you know, I'm not the story here.

  • [TITLE CARDS]: [TITLE CARD] I moved to Berlin to protect my film footage from being seized at the US border.When the emails arrived, I increased secuirty.