I would rather be without a state than without a voice. Edward Snowden More Quotes by Edward Snowden More Quotes From Edward Snowden Terrorism kills far fewer people than cigarettes, or alcohol, or car accidents. But we don't see ourselves restructuring society and lives in order to make those threats go away. Edward Snowden car order people The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that. Edward Snowden administration cutting community [Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty." Edward Snowden data looks needs We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths. Edward Snowden media crazy littles We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward. Edward Snowden our-world moving-forward reality What we're seeing now, or starting to see, is an atomization of the Internet community. Before, everybody went only to a few sites; now we've got all these boutiques. Edward Snowden starting internet community Increasingly we're seeing these ultra-partisan sites getting larger and larger readerships because people are self-selecting themselves into communities. Edward Snowden community self people In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians. Edward Snowden digital communication america Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries. Edward Snowden war country world Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech. Edward Snowden hong-kong strong people I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more airtime. We cannot be effective without a mass movement, and the American people today are too comfortable to adapt to a mass movement. Edward Snowden movement want people We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism. Edward Snowden threat terrorism I built my own studio. I don't have the professional language to describe it because I'm not a videographer - but I'm a technician. So I get the camera, I get all the things that translate the camera to the computer, I set up a live session, I do the security on it, I set up a background so I can key it out, like newscasters do, and replace it with whatever I want - and I can be anywhere I need to be. Edward Snowden cameras keys want I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact. Edward Snowden liberty arguing facts One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was exposed to more reports than average individuals, who had a better understanding of the bigger picture - was that the post - World War II, post - Cold War directions of societies were either broadly authoritarian or [broadly] liberal or libertarian. Edward Snowden community average war We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism. Edward Snowden giving-up rights people I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary. Edward Snowden hate ordinary talking We need to make sure that whenever we're engaging in a cyber-warfare campaign, a cyber-espionage campaign in the United States, that we understand the word cyber is used as a euphemism for the internet, because the American public would not be excited to hear that we're doing internet warfare campaigns, internet espionage campaigns, because we realize that we ourselves are impacted by it. Edward Snowden warfare united-states needs The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It's also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing. Edward Snowden political community country America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment, making it a more reliable environment, because that's the foundation of our economy and our future. Edward Snowden foundation internet america
