You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country. It's somewhere else in the world.
Edward SnowdenCitizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.
Edward SnowdenIt is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.
Edward Snowden[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty."
Edward SnowdenSometimes that irrational commitment to principle is what society needs to survive. Whenever you talk about radicalism, whenever you talk about activism, whenever you talk about progressive activity, that sort of moves the measure of liberty in human society forward, makes us all enjoy a better standard of liberty, it typically starts out criminal. It typically starts out a little bit shaky, and rather radical. And that's irrational to put yourself up to do that.
Edward Snowden