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

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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 07 2014, @06:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 07 2014, @06:24PM (#52683)

    Snowden provided useful info for foreign intelligence agencies, and terrorists. There has not been a public debate about the SPECIFIC types of intelligence gathering. Senators, like Dianne Feinstein, have not been strongly effected by this. Snowden forgot how much the American public cared about terrorism, and how little it cared about the rest of the world. Politicians try to keep an eye public sentiment. Given Facebook, I am not surprised about the lack of interest among the American Public.

    Chelsey Manning was just not rigorous enough in her leaking, and screening. We could have gotten some good debates about Iraq policy if he had fled, and was choosy about the specific information he released.

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