I remember watching a documentary where Snowden said he tried many times in many places to tell the government about the spying on US citizens but he was ignored or threatened. Later in that documentary, one of his superiors said that Snowden was a product of his agency not being "compartmentalized" enough. In other words, do bad things with lots of people that do very little, that each person doing is not wrong in itself and they won't know what their little contribution is to the bigger picture of the crime.
In other words, do bad things with lots of people that do very little, that each person doing is not wrong in itself and they won't know what their little contribution is to the bigger picture of the crime
This is exactly what happened in the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's 1984.
Reminds me of the movie Cube and what Holloway said (if you've seen it): "keep everyone separated so that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, the brain never comes out in the open". Snowden saw enough of the big picture and said enough was enough. Whether or not anyone else did is irrelevant, or even how many people knew in the first place, all that matters is that the info was made public.
I remember watching a documentary where Snowden said he tried many times in many places to tell the government about the spying on US citizens but he was ignored or threatened. Later in that documentary, one of his superiors said that Snowden was a product of his agency not being "compartmentalized" enough. In other words, do bad things with lots of people that do very little, that each person doing is not wrong in itself and they won't know what their little contribution is to the bigger picture of the crime.
This is exactly what happened in the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's 1984.
Reminds me of the movie Cube and what Holloway said (if you've seen it): "keep everyone separated so that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, the brain never comes out in the open". Snowden saw enough of the big picture and said enough was enough. Whether or not anyone else did is irrelevant, or even how many people knew in the first place, all that matters is that the info was made public.