<story><title>My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook Goodbye post</title><url>https://alecmuffett.com/article/14994</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fareesh</author><text>On the popularity of Haugen: I find it amusing how your government treats a whistleblower who is promoting government control over social media, vs the way your government treats a whistleblower who leaks evidence of government spying and abuse.&lt;p&gt;The fact that Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are treated the way they are (and the earlier treatment of Manning) gives the US government zero credibility on press freedom, social media legislation or anything remotely related to privacy.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Furthermore according to the FBI it&amp;#x27;s ok for Hillary Clinton to keep government communication explicitly marked classified in her basement server because no harm is intended, whereas others have been prosecuted in the absence of intended harm.&lt;p&gt;The optics are absolutely terrible on these issues. If I can speak for some of the folks in the rest of the world, we&amp;#x27;re laughing and shaking our heads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexB138</author><text>&amp;gt; I find it amusing how your government treats a whistleblower who is promoting government control over social media, vs the way your government treats a whistleblower who leaks evidence of government spying and abuse.&lt;p&gt;That is because e.g. Snowden is actually a whistleblower, warning the people against the powers that be, and Haugen is an activist pushing for an agenda which aligns with what the powers that be want, making her a useful political pawn.</text></comment>
<story><title>My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook Goodbye post</title><url>https://alecmuffett.com/article/14994</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fareesh</author><text>On the popularity of Haugen: I find it amusing how your government treats a whistleblower who is promoting government control over social media, vs the way your government treats a whistleblower who leaks evidence of government spying and abuse.&lt;p&gt;The fact that Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are treated the way they are (and the earlier treatment of Manning) gives the US government zero credibility on press freedom, social media legislation or anything remotely related to privacy.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Furthermore according to the FBI it&amp;#x27;s ok for Hillary Clinton to keep government communication explicitly marked classified in her basement server because no harm is intended, whereas others have been prosecuted in the absence of intended harm.&lt;p&gt;The optics are absolutely terrible on these issues. If I can speak for some of the folks in the rest of the world, we&amp;#x27;re laughing and shaking our heads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helen___keller</author><text>&amp;gt; Furthermore according to the FBI it&amp;#x27;s ok for Hillary Clinton to keep government communication explicitly marked classified in her basement server because no harm is intended, whereas others have been prosecuted in the absence of intended harm&lt;p&gt;What exactly does this have to do with the topic? Your first paragraphs are talking about treatment of whistleblowers and Hillary Clinton is (obviously) not a whistleblower.&lt;p&gt;Adding in a Clinton dig just adds political derailment to the topic for no particular reason.</text></comment>