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1. Comment - Insight & Opinion - MY TAKE

   Obama's NSA reforms vindicate Edward Snowden

   Posted Aug 13th 2013, 12:00am by Alex Lo

   ... he said Obama's announcement "validated Edward Snowden's role as a whistle-blower" and amounted to "a victory of sorts for Edward Snowden." The president says he ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1296248/obamas-nsa-reforms-vindicate-edward-snowden
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   Whistle-blowing vital in a democracy

   Posted Jun 20th 2013, 12:00am by Alex Lo

   ... of Edward Snowden? When spymaster Keith Alexander, the National Security Agency director, testified before Congress this week, the politicians almost commiserated with him. Star columnists David Brooks and Tom Friedman of The New York Times condemned Snowden for betraying the US and undermining its security. I leave out the right-wing lunacy of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1264543/whistle-blowing-vital-democracy
3. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   Cheney is a true threat to freedom

   Posted Jun 18th 2013, 12:00am by Alex Lo

   ... Former US vice-president Dick Cheney has called Edward Snowden a traitor and a Chinese spy on Fox News channel. I don't know if he is right or not. But you could argue that both men have exposed the darkest side of the American government and the dangers it poses to its own citizens and the rest of the world. If Snowden is a traitor, an excellent case can be made ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1263089/cheney-true-threat-freedom
4. Comment - Insight & Opinion - MY TAKE

   Spy agencies' criminality breathtaking

   Posted Sep 09th 2013, 12:00am by Alex Lo

   ... and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems worldwide. But given the criminality of the spy agencies, some hackers look more like heroes - like Snowden. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1306516/spy-agencies-criminality-breathtaking
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   US spoof speaks truth to power

   Posted Jun 15th 2013, 12:00am by Alex Lo

   ... The usual busybodies like lawmaker "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung have planned a protest march in support of Snowden to the consulate office in Garden Road today. That's enough ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1261094/us-spoof-speaks-truth-power
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   Prize for cosy ties goes to US tech giants

   Posted Jun 17th 2013, 12:00am by Alex Lo

   ... of the American public. These alleged close ties may or may not exist on the mainland, but thanks to the exposure of Edward Snowden and others, we now know that close working relationships do exist ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1262426/prize-cosy-ties-goes-us-tech-giants
7. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   A brave new world of hi-tech tyranny

   Posted Jun 14th 2013, 12:00am by Alex Lo

   ... Alex Lo alex.lo@scmp.com MY TAKE A brave new world of hi-tech tyranny US officials and tech company executives have rhapsodised for years about how the internet - and more recently social media - will free the world of tyranny and promote democracy. The exposure by Edward Snowden of America's massive surveillance programme rather says the opposite. Too often, we associate ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1260222/brave-new-world-hi-tech-tyranny
8. Comment - Insight & Opinion - MY TAKE

   Big Brothers of every shade are watching, in China and the US

   Posted Sep 12th 2013, 12:00am by Alex Lo

   ... administration is also carrying out an unprecedented war on whistle-blowers at home. We are not talking about Bradley Manning , Edward Snowden or Julian Assange, just old-fashioned ones who stole nothing ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1308575/big-brothers-every-shade-are-watching-china-and-us
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   How C.Y. won this spying game

   Posted Jun 26th 2013, 12:00am by Alex Lo

   ... revelations by Edward Snowden about pervasive US cyberspying have been a propaganda coup for Beijing, but his presence in Hong Kong was a major embarrassment for the administration. Many people were baying for a legal showdown in the courts for his extradition. By shipping him out quietly, Leung has avoided a legal and diplomatic quagmire. Beijing yesterday praised Snowden as a young ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1268895/how-cy-won-spying-game
10. Comment - Insight & Opinion - MY TAKE

    We have good reason to worry about US power

    Posted Sep 04th 2013, 12:00am by Alex Lo

    ... after Edward Snowden's revelations, after the "war on terror" under George W. Bush, and how those powers have been reaffirmed by Barack Obama. Perhaps scarier is that such powers ...

    http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1302841/we-have-good-reason-worry-about-us-power

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