cm18

Works better when the "leaders" don't stand in your way.

Rainy-Day-Dream

that's why we want a government that will get out of our fuckin way

totes_magotes

This is a call to a bloody revolution and civil war.

go1dfish

Nope, Snowden is just a bit of a crypto anarchist. Best described by Wei Dai IMO

I am fascinated by Tim May's crypto-anarchy. Unlike the communities traditionally associated with the word "anarchy", in a crypto-anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary. It's a community where the threat of violence is impotent because violence is impossible, and violence is impossible because its participants cannot be linked to their true names or physical locations.

Pretty sure this is closer to what he's getting at.

Or as Snowden has said himself:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/edward-snowdens-other-motive-for-leaking/370068/

While I pray that public awareness and debate will lead to reform, bear in mind that the policies of men change in time, and even the Constitution is subverted when the appetites of power demand it. In words from history: Let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography.

LatoreCon

Well hell yeah, there's nothing for any leader to offer anyone that you can model your life after. Businesses get their money, and give you the finger. City officials aren't usually smarter than the average citizen. The news agencies are liars. Politicians are frauds and corrupted, not to mention got their job through cronyism. I feel pretty flatlined in life myself.

Datawych

Maybe he should come back and help, then.

DishingShitLikeA

He already is/has in ways most people are not capable of.