[HN Gopher] Edward Snowden revealed as key participant in myster...
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       Edward Snowden revealed as key participant in mysterious ceremony
       creating zcash
        
       Author : danso
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2022-04-27 20:35 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | camillomiller wrote:
       | Not a single mention, not even in passing, about how Snowden is
       | silent since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, after claiming that
       | Russia would never invade.
        
         | MarcellusDrum wrote:
         | Umm, he did address this on his Twitter.
         | 
         | > I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by
         | a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you
         | concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had
         | that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to
         | be useful, because I called it wrong.
         | 
         | He admitted that he was wrong, and did the responsible thing
         | which is not speculating anymore about things he does not
         | understand.
        
           | scottdomes wrote:
        
           | dragonwriter wrote:
           | ...he posted that 3 days after the invasion, 6 days after his
           | previous tweet, and hasn't posted (including likes or RTs)
           | since though he was posting multiple tweets a day on a wide
           | variety of topics up until stopping 3 days before the
           | invasion.
           | 
           | I mean, unless he had a much broader epiphany and you mean
           | _literally everything_ when you say "things he does not
           | understand", the tweet you reference, and your (reasonable)
           | characterization of it 's overt message read in isolation,
           | doesn't really explain his actual behavior change.
        
           | Barrin92 wrote:
        
         | subjectsigma wrote:
         | Not a single mention in your comment that afterwards, Snowden
         | apologized and said he would refrain from making statements on
         | topics he didn't understand which could be considered
         | misinformation.
        
         | cyberia23424 wrote:
         | None of his followers seem to care much about it either
        
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