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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday April 23 2015, @03:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the who's-the-good-guy dept.

Newsmax reports that according to according to KRC Research about 64 percent of Americans familiar with Snowden hold a negative opinion of him. However 56 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 have a positive opinion of Snowden which contrasts sharply with older age cohorts. Among those aged 35-44, some 34 percent have positive attitudes toward him. For the 45-54 age cohort, the figure is 28 percent, and it drops to 26 percent among Americans over age 55, U.S. News reported. Americans overall say by plurality that Snowden has done “more to hurt” U.S. national security (43 percent) than help it (20 percent). A similar breakdown was seen with views on whether Snowden helped or hurt efforts to combat terrorism, though the numbers flip on whether his actions will lead to greater privacy protections. “The broad support for Edward Snowden among Millennials around the world should be a message to democratic countries that change is coming,” says Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “They are a generation of digital natives who don’t want government agencies tracking them online or collecting data about their phone calls.” Opinions of millennials are particularly significant in light of January 2015 findings by the U.S. Census Bureau that they are projected to surpass the baby-boom generation as the United States’ largest living generation this year.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by GDX on Thursday April 23 2015, @07:17PM

    by GDX (1950) on Thursday April 23 2015, @07:17PM (#174401)

    As an European more than on time called paranoid because basically I was telling what Snowden revealed before it revealed it, actually most of was revealed by him was already know but at that time it was categorized as a lie, hoax or low quality rumor and him confirmed that those things where real. Anyone what wanted seriously to do anything against the USA was counting the rumors as true, the actually the damage to the security is minimal as only the petty conspirators or criminal ignored the rumors. For this I think that the damage was minimal to the USA security, the blunt of the damage was done to the authorities as it revealed that they were violating laws and the rights of the people and in second to the USA companies as other countries can't not ignore more that the USA tech companies where not trustworthy (Actually I don't consider any company in the world trustworthy).

    I think that most of this dislike in USA for Snowden come from two things, people ignoring who he is and really what he did and people that don't want to admit the true of what the USA do to their citizens.

    Also what more outraged citizens in other countries is not that they spied their politicians as this is always spectated to some degree is that the spied every Jon Doe, without regard to if the resulting data where really of interest and not doing it to selected persons of interest where the resulting data is going to be more of interest.

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