Why don't people seem to care as much as they should about what Snowden revealed and how he's being treated?

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[–]AmbroseBierce 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Look at how they are treating Assange.

Snowden only exposed the US, and the media was quick to memory-hole it to protect Obama.

[–]StillLessons 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree that Assange is the perfect test case for this. It is shocking to me that while millions of people go into the street to fight police brutality in the case of George Floyd, Assange - who faces unbelievable institutional brutality ongoing at the hands of TPTB, gets crickets. This is a perfect pairing to demonstrate the case that protests like BLM are manufactured by power to serve the interests of power. Don't get me wrong, what happened to both Floyd and to Assange is evil. But why respond to one and not the other? The answer is obvious.