John Oliver says how we can’t choose to be ignorant anymore. When asking whether Edward Snowden is a traitor I ask myself, did he have different morals from the government? Does the government even have enough empathy to turn away from using new technologies being used against citizens and innocent people?
Like John Oliver shows there are people who side with the military. Especially in America we are wired to believe that our governments and military soldiers are heroes. To the point that we sacrifice our privacy.
New technology has so much information. As well, they use advanced knowledge on psychology on what drives a person to choose a president and we are easily controlled by fear.
When I think about mass surveillance I think of how the police can use our phones and wire tap it to criminate more Black Americans and poor communities more often in the future.
As technology gets better and this sort of technology is more advanced in the police and government they will have more power over us.
In the interview with John Oliver I noticed how he expected some people to not be educated on what information he revealed. I knew this would happen as well, and I think everyone who is against our government knows that this isn’t a fight every citizen will take part in. Like mentioned before in Ellsberg, Wigand, and Snowden, and Edward Snowden is just releasing information that is vital but common sense in the activist communities.
This is mentioned in the Netflix documentary social dilemma and how this generation alone has had more negative effects because of how the internet is being used.
when I see blogs, vlogs, YouTube videos, Twitter, and other apps I notice of how much information we share and how everything from what we ate, vacations, personal feelings and insecurities as expressed. I notice how open we are with strangers. Personally I feel like we don’t know exactly how that could affect us. How there are many predators, groomers, and hackers who use our information to gain our trust or use our address to kidnap or stalk us. Now think of how even using our smartphones without sharing anything with social media but our text messages and notes are hacked and even our google search history sold to advertisers. We are buying our phones so that our information can be sold or used as well without our knowledge of it. Now if you worked in these government or secret agencies/ organizations, and you had any moral compass because you know money doesn’t control all of us. Would you leak this information to our society?
Yes, I bet many workers have thought about it, But like the book 1984 and Big Brother says; we are programmed to think that if we talk against our government and want change, we are traitors and are manipulated to think that we have no power to ever change our government. Our only power as citizens is to vote? How is that fair, since, like the Vice, documentary says, it’s not one president but the entire history of presidents that have worked to use surveillance and fear to control us.
When I say they have control I mean that it’s all illusions, since money is what controls our society. Any normal citizen just has to trust our government with fickle lies about our freedom of speech and how the government protects our privacy. As well with propaganda so that anyone who’s not as knowledgeable thinks that we are the best country and that nothing needs that much change. Edward Snowden says in his interviews, it’s a lot complicated. To go against our government takes a lot of work and paranoia. People who have normal lives shouldn’t do this and shouldn’t change our ways, it would be pointless to do so because our government has so much money and technologies working with that is impossible.
There has been many hacks and leaks, still the government has many loyal followers. President Trump was made president even though he was shown to be part of Epstein list of people he worked with. Why is that? It seems like there are no morals in our government. No matter how many leaks are sent to the internet and media our government and these organizations aren’t being taken accountable instead the ones whose lives are changed are people like Edwards Snowden, Ellsberg, Wigand.
In this world nothing is free. Even our phones come with a price. Our information has a price tag on it as well. With everything that’s been going on and all the information that was once a conspiracy theory, I have to say that’s hard to process and when things are hard to process many think that’s either not that big of a deal or they disassociate from those ideas. Like Snowden said that he just wanted this story to come out. There’s not exactly a clear solution like many of the whistleblowers; they are just leaks that needed to be told. With his leaks there are going to be small regulations and advertising that let us know that there are possibilities of secure and safe internet use. Though that doesn’t mean all of what Wigand, Ellsberg and Snowden leaked and ruined their lives for are going to be fully solved.
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