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Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 68 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

He was being chased by the US government, and Assange proved that being in an US allied country will still get your arrested/tortured. What other options did Snowden had other than escaping to Russia?

IMO don't hate the player, hate the game.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I thought the same thing too at the time and that's why I wrote it off. But the problem is that knowing how Putin is and what he does, what makes you think that he would let Snowden stay there in Russia without demanding any of that information as payment?

    And if Snowden was so hard up for places to go that he had to go to Russia to escape extradition to the US what position would he be in to even say no if Russia demanded it?

    Think about it. If someone came to the US to escape persecution in Russia for whistleblowing, you can damn well believe the US gov't would demand info. They brought all those Nazi rocket scientists over to work rather than sending them to prison because of the knowledge they posssesed. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    without demanding any of that information as payment?

    Can Putin not read The Intercept?
    Does Putin even need to?
    Snowden deleted all traces of that stash once he delivered it to the reporters. He's in Russia 'cos it's a way for Putin to annoy the US.

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