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Saturday, 18 October 2014

Edward Snowden interviewed

Here is another interview, that I haven't listened to yet, with Edward Snowden

The Virtual Interview: Edward Snowden - The New Yorker Festival


The New Yorker Festival presents Edward Snowden in conversation with Jane Mayer

Edward Snowden and Kim Dotcom are forever tied together in exile for two totally different actions against United States’ interests. And over the weekend, the New Yorker did its part to further solidify those bonds with the one-two punch of “virtual interviews” with the two men.

On Saturday, Jane Mayer remotely interviewed Snowden, who leaked information about the federal government's spying strategy, as part of the New Yorker Festival, which ended yesterday. Preceding the interview, in which Snowden warned against using Google, Facebook, and Dropbox out of privacy concerns, the New Yorker ran a clip of CitizenFour, a documentary about Snowden by Laura Poitras.

Then, the following day, New Yorker features director Daniel Zalewski interviewed Dotcom, the founder of the now shuttered file-sharing site Megaupload, which the FBI accused of costing intellectual property owners $500 million in lost revenue.

Zalewski personally chose the two men to participate in the interviews via Google Hangouts because they are “cyber fugitives whose actions, and defense of those actions” have fascinated him, he said in the interview.

This isn’t the first time Snowden and Dotcom were joined virtually. In September, Snowden and Julian Assange, another techie in exile piped in via satellite to support Dotcom’s political efforts. Later that month, Dotcom failed to win a Parliamentary seat in New Zealand, the site of his exile.


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