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Edward Snowden: Why did he have to leave USA & go into hiding? Where is he anyway? Who is taking care of him? How does he earn money to survive? What is he doing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (5 children)

This doesn't really seem like OOTL and more like "I need someone to Google this for me." I usually hate snarky answers like the one I'm writing right now, but come on.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Agree! Happy reading OP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Snowden later made contact with Glenn Greenwald, a journalist working at The Guardian.[111] He contacted Greenwald anonymously as "Cincinnatus"[112][113] and said he had sensitive documents that he would like to share.[114] Greenwald found the measures that the source asked him to take to secure their communications, such as encrypting email, too annoying to employ. Snowden then contacted

what the fuck, Glenn.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The specificity on a non-common topic makes me think this is a school homework assignment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

OP is 48 years old. She has no homework assignments. Her curiosity on this topic was piqued by another Lemmy post.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I’m going to play devil’s advocate here and say that while they could search it, there are specific questions they wanted answers to and many articles go into a lot of depth.

Many Lemmy answers are going to be much more succinct and only provide what is asked or even give alternative viewpoints/sources in one spot.

It doesn’t excuse the laziness, but more an alternative perspective.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I came to share the same thing, but then I am liking the bits of conversation people are having.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yes! That's what Lemmy is all about. If I wanted to sit in a dark quiet room and stare at Google and Wikipedia with no interaction, I would do that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah I think it takes more effort to make a Lemmy post than to just search up Edward Snowden.