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Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.


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Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

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Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.



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The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works



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We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.



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