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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) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 07 2014, @07:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 07 2014, @07:57PM (#52741)

    How is supporting Obama any better than supporting Romney? By your logic, most american people have "gone off the deep end".

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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday June 07 2014, @11:11PM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 07 2014, @11:11PM (#52788)
    For starters: His first priority was to take out Big Bird.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 08 2014, @01:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 08 2014, @01:31PM (#52934)

    >By your logic, most american people have "gone off the deep end".
    Correct. Sort your country out.