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Edward Snowden: Why did he have to leave USA & go into hiding? Where is he anyway? Who is taking care of him? How does he earn money to survive? What is he doing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This doesn't really seem like OOTL and more like "I need someone to Google this for me." I usually hate snarky answers like the one I'm writing right now, but come on.

[–] jasep@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agree! Happy reading OP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Snowden later made contact with Glenn Greenwald, a journalist working at The Guardian.[111] He contacted Greenwald anonymously as "Cincinnatus"[112][113] and said he had sensitive documents that he would like to share.[114] Greenwald found the measures that the source asked him to take to secure their communications, such as encrypting email, too annoying to employ. Snowden then contacted

what the fuck, Glenn.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The specificity on a non-common topic makes me think this is a school homework assignment.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OP is 48 years old. She has no homework assignments. Her curiosity on this topic was piqued by another Lemmy post.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I came to share the same thing, but then I am liking the bits of conversation people are having.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes! That's what Lemmy is all about. If I wanted to sit in a dark quiet room and stare at Google and Wikipedia with no interaction, I would do that.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I’m going to play devil’s advocate here and say that while they could search it, there are specific questions they wanted answers to and many articles go into a lot of depth.

Many Lemmy answers are going to be much more succinct and only provide what is asked or even give alternative viewpoints/sources in one spot.

It doesn’t excuse the laziness, but more an alternative perspective.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think it takes more effort to make a Lemmy post than to just search up Edward Snowden.