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Charles Cooper reports that venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has called former NSA contractor Edward Snowden a traitor for leaking national secrets about US surveillance practices and says that foreign nations may use the disclosures as an excuse to promote their domestic technology suppliers over American rivals. "Obviously he's a traitor," says Andreessen. "Like if you look up in the encyclopedia 'traitor,' there's a picture of Ed Snowden. Like he's a textbook traitor. They don't get much more traitor than that. I will say that I'm in the distinct minority out here. Most people in Silicon Valley would pick the other designation."
Andreessen added that NSA leaks may well wind up getting used as a cudgel by foreign governments against American companies that depend on overseas sales. "There's a big open question right now how successful our companies will be when they go sell products overseas," says Andreessen. "I think there are a lot of foreign companies that are very envious of Silicon Valley and America's domination of tech and wish that they could implement protection policies. And they are going to use this whole affair as a reason to do that ... as an excuse."
(Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 07 2014, @03:05PM
are "We The People" who you could say that Snowden filed his reports to on the actions of his "superiors". Those in service to the US often swear an oath, first to preserve and protect the Constitution in which "We The People" created the US Government and then to follow the orders of those above them. What the government is doing now is like a lieutenant putting spyware on the colonel's daughters computer to keep her webcam on and broadcasting to him while she changes clothes etc, monitoring and recording all of her browsing, communications etc on it. Sergeant Snowden finds out and is ordered not to tell the colonel but he tells them anyway, which puts him in violation of his orders.
So is Colonel "We The People" tired of getting treated like Colonel Klink? And aren't "We The People" glad Snowden wasn't another Sergeant Shultz? Imagine what sort of use the lieutenant had for those images and information he was gathering on "We the People"s daughter?