When international media is primarily dominated by multinational US corporations, voices that are affected outside that realm seldom get heard.
The thing that must happen now is to not let them get away with it. If they do get away with it, that is now carte blanche approval for EVERYONE to do it. On Thursday, August 22, 2013, Sana Saleem wrote: > Even a large segment of media discourse seems to dwell on "his choice of > destination". Rather than focus largely on the issues he exposed. The > repercussions of NSA revelations are heavily influencing discourse in other > countries esp Pakistan. Where we first heard "look at china progressing > despite censorship" now we hear "United States does it, how do you expect > us not to?" > > More broadly it seems non US citizens do not even exist. Even the > discussions on NSA violations have largely been focused on how US is spying > on its own people. I as a brown woman in Pakistan do not exist. Tragic, > shameful and appalling. > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Director, Bolo Bhi, Advocacy-Policy-Research [http://bolobhi.org] > Blogger: Dawn.com [http://blog.dawn.com/author/sana-saleem/] > Global Voices: [http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/sana-saleem/] > The Guardian:[ www.guardian.co.uk/profile/sana-saleem] > Blog: http://sanasaleem.com] Twitter: > @sanasaleem<http://twitter.com/sanasaleem> > @bolobhi <http://bolobhi.org/> > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Tom O > <winterfi...@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'winterfi...@gmail.com');> > > wrote: > >> It's for his choice in destinations that will get him worse. Aiding the >> enemy could be politically sensitive. Do you really want to call China & >> Russia the enemy? >> >> Prosecution and conviction under the espionage act is a given. >> >> I suspect his trial won't be as open as Mannings. >> >> >> On Thursday, August 22, 2013, Sana Saleem wrote: >> >>> If Snowden gets captured, you can bet he will be getting much much worse >>> >>> It's extremely sad that not many people realize that, the discourse >>> critiquing snowden for his 'choice' destinations is appalling. >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Director, Bolo Bhi, Advocacy-Policy-Research [http://bolobhi.org] >>> Blogger: Dawn.com [http://blog.dawn.com/author/sana-saleem/] >>> Global Voices: [http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/sana-saleem/] >>> The Guardian:[ www.guardian.co.uk/profile/sana-saleem] >>> Blog: http://sanasaleem.com] Twitter: >>> @sanasaleem<http://twitter.com/sanasaleem> >>> @bolobhi <http://bolobhi.org/> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Tom O <winterfi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> If Snowden gets captured, you can bet he will be getting much much worse >>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. >> Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at >> compa...@stanford.edu <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> 'compa...@stanford.edu');>. >> > >
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