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Edward Snowden: Why did he have to leave USA & go into hiding? Where is he anyway? Who is taking care of him? How does he earn money to survive? What is he doing? (self.outoftheloop)

submitted 11 months ago by LemmyKnowsBest to c/outoftheloop

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[–] PP_BOY_ 60 points 11 months ago (5 children)

This doesn't really seem like OOTL and more like "I need someone to Google this for me." I usually hate snarky answers like the one I'm writing right now, but come on.

[–] jasep 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Agree! Happy reading OP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Snowden later made contact with Glenn Greenwald, a journalist working at The Guardian.[111] He contacted Greenwald anonymously as "Cincinnatus"[112][113] and said he had sensitive documents that he would like to share.[114] Greenwald found the measures that the source asked him to take to secure their communications, such as encrypting email, too annoying to employ. Snowden then contacted

what the fuck, Glenn.

[–] BigMikeInAustin 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The specificity on a non-common topic makes me think this is a school homework assignment.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

OP is 48 years old. She has no homework assignments. Her curiosity on this topic was piqued by another Lemmy post.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah I think it takes more effort to make a Lemmy post than to just search up Edward Snowden.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I came to share the same thing, but then I am liking the bits of conversation people are having.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 1 points 11 months ago

Yes! That's what Lemmy is all about. If I wanted to sit in a dark quiet room and stare at Google and Wikipedia with no interaction, I would do that.

[–] WindyRebel 6 points 11 months ago

I’m going to play devil’s advocate here and say that while they could search it, there are specific questions they wanted answers to and many articles go into a lot of depth.

Many Lemmy answers are going to be much more succinct and only provide what is asked or even give alternative viewpoints/sources in one spot.

It doesn’t excuse the laziness, but more an alternative perspective.