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Marc Andreessen Calls Snowden a 'Textbook Traitor'

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday June 07 2014, @10:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the Blaming-the-Messenger dept.

Hugh Pickens writes:

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."

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 07 2014, @03:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 07 2014, @03:18PM (#52638)

    Constitution? Only filthy foreigners and terrorists - I know, the same thing - actually READ the damn thing. Real patriots believe what they're told about it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 07 2014, @03:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 07 2014, @03:59PM (#52648)

    We don't take kindly to book learnin' 'round here. We go with our guts.

    -Typical Merkin

    • (Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Saturday June 07 2014, @09:23PM

      by SlimmPickens (1056) on Saturday June 07 2014, @09:23PM (#52766)

      We don't take kindly to book learnin' 'round here. We go with our guts.

      I think Stephen Colbert said it best:

      I don't trust books. They're all fact and no heart, and that's exactly pulling our country apart today. Because face It folks, were a divided nation. Not between democrats and republicans or conservatives and liberals, or tops and bottoms. No... We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their hearts.