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Ideologies / Civil Libertarian / Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden — ink portrait
§ The minds · b. 1983 · United States · Whistleblower

Edward Snowden

Privacy as a right

Exposed mass surveillance.

Reformist Civil Libertarian →
Economic+44
SocialistMarket
Governance−36
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+50
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The intelligence contractor whose disclosures revealed the scale of mass surveillance, making digital privacy a defining civil-liberties cause of the era.

social

Progressive on privacy and individual rights.

economic

Tech-market background; motivated by liberty, not economics.

governance

Revealed and opposed state mass surveillance.

Notable for
  • Revealed mass-surveillance programs
  • Global privacy debate
  • Whistleblower in exile
privacywhistleblowinganti-surveillance
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Glenn Greenwald
98% affinity
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow
97% affinity
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow
97% affinity
Roger Baldwin
Roger Baldwin
97% affinity
Atticus Finch
Atticus Finch
96% affinity
Nadine Strossen
Nadine Strossen
95% affinity
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