• Stephen Fry denounces UK government for not acting on Snowden revelations
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[quote] Stephen Fry has denounced the government's failure to act over the mass surveillance programme revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, labelling its behaviour as "squalid and rancid". Opening a day of debate to galvanise action against industrial-scale spying by the British and US intelligence agencies, Fry said that exploiting the fear of terrorism is a "duplicitous and deeply wrong means of excusing something as base as spying on the citizens of your own country". The performer was speaking via a pre-recorded interview at a London summit on Saturday marking the anniversary of the start of Snowden's revelations, which were first published in the Guardian and the Washington Post. The day of action is billed as the biggest privacy event of 2014, with more than 500 people attending the event at Shoreditch Town Hall in east London. Speaking at the event are experts in technology, security and human rights from across the world. Among them are Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who said: "The tide is beginning to turn as the public comes to understand just how broken the surveillance state is." Other high-profile speakers include Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian editor-in-chief who led the team that masterminded a series of remarkable disclosures from the files leaked by the National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower. The summit is organised by the Don't Spy on Us Campaign, a coalition of privacy, free expression and digital rights organisations which is urging the British government to end mass surveillance on the web and mobile phone networks by the UK's eavesdropping centre GCHQ. The coalition is calling for an inquiry that will report before next year's general election and investigate the extent to which current laws have failed to protect the privacy of members of the public. They also are demanding new legislation to make the security agencies accountable to MPs. [/quote] [url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/07/stephen-fry-denounces-uk-government-edward-snowden-nsa-revelations[/url] There is also a video in the source.
I agree with him. I cannot understand why do they want to prosecute Snowden instead - even if he was a whistleblower, he did the right thing for telling the world that no matter how hard they try, they can and are being watched.
Now watch as they give not one shit.
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