March 11 2014 Edward Snowden Conference: “I took an oath to defend the Constitution, and I felt the Constitution was being violated on a massive scale.”

Edward Snowden Says He Would ‘Absolutely’ Do It Again

Streamed live on Mar 10, 2014  by   acluvideos

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Edward Snowden speaks about privacy and technology with the ACLU's Ben Wizner and Christopher Soghoian at SXSW Interactive.

The NSA whistle-blower told an audience at the SXSW festival/conference via video chat, “Would I do it again? Absolutely yes.” He added: “I took an oath to defend the Constitution, and I felt the Constitution was being violated on a massive scale.”

Snowden lobbied his tech industry audience to embrace strong encryption, with the metaphor that the government has set fire to the Internet and technologists are the firefighters.

The video above is not that easy to watch, in part because Snowden passed his conversation through a claimed seven proxies between Russia and the United States.
 
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