Dylan Stableford
news.yahoo.com
March 10, 2014
National Security Agency contractor-turned-leaker Edward Snowden told attendees at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, on Monday that they are “firefighters” in the fight against mass surveillance.
“The NSA … they’re setting fire to the future of the Internet,” Snowden said. “The result has been an adversarial Internet.”
Snowden spoke via teleconference from Russia — where he was granted asylum from U.S. espionage charges — through seven proxies, organizers said. A green screen behind Snowden projected an image of the U.S. Constitution.
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