All for it.

Controversial, sure. But no odder than giving the Peace prize to Obama in 2009.

The way I see it, Snowden has done more for transparency and honesty in the last 8 months than ANYONE has done in the last 60 years. He has shown the hypocrisy and cravenness of countries all over the world. That should be worth rewarding.

Meh.

The Nobel Committee is a private organisation, and they can give their pretty shiny thing to whomever they like for whatever reason.

I forgot the link, sorry
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/29/edward-snowden-nominated-nobel-peace-prize

I still don’t know how I feel about Snowden.

@syz Me neither.

@Seek Kolinahr It’s the shiny million dollar prize that rivets my attention. Whatever Snowden’s motives, it daily grows more evident that he probably did us a huge solid.

Oh hell no.

@Dutchess_III
Why do you hate freedom?

@ragingloli GOOD ONE!

He’s a traitor. What the government does they do for the good of the country. I firmly believe that. The information that Snowden STILL has could really, really hurt us if it gets into the wrong hands.

@stanleybmanly Also “meh”. The word “million” sounds pretty still, but it’s not all that much money in the grand scheme of things. Probably would help him out though, being a refugee and all.

And if he doesn’t want the money, I’ll take it.

@Dutchess_III
”What the government does they do for the good of the country.”
You are so naive.

Or you may be paranoid. I guess we’ll find out some day. As for right now, I seem to enjoy a lot of freedom, advantages, and feel pretty well protected, so that would suggest I’m right, at least for now. If that changes, I will change my belief.

A quick glance at human history shows that the “good of the country” is pretty low on governments’ lists.

As I said, I currently enjoy freedom, privilege and protection. If they’re doing dasterdly things to their citizens, it hasn’t hit Kansas yet (except for the damn Republican governor here. Gonna vote his ass out.)

At least he sort of did something noteworthy.

I stopped taking it seriously when Al Gore got it for a Global Warming movie, and Barack Obama got it for ???

Yes. I’m all for it. What he did will change the world.

A bit puzzling. He certainly created friction – not peace – between the US and our allies that we are were spying on. Do people really believe that there will be long term changes to the surveillance state because of him? Interesting. I guess I thought that ship had sailed…

I admire what he did. It was a very unselfish act. He has also been nominated for the post of student rector at Glasgow University.

I usually couldn’t care less about the Nobel prizes, but I would like to see him win it just to annoy @Dutchess_III

There’s few things more satisfying than when authoritarians have a fit.

What Snowden did was actually pretty courageous considering the consequences of his actions could lead to very serious prosecution later on. A traitor? Not necessarily because some of what he revealed was abuse of power and questionable activities by the NSA. They have been chastised already in the past for other misdeeds.

As far as what the government does is all for the good of the country, absolutely not true. Our government has myriad problems and has been involved in all kinds of troublesome and questionable activities through the years (i.e. – CIA) among other agencies. The Patriot Act in and of itself is a good example of the American government not having your best interests at heart.

@Kropotkin

Agreed.

As for the prize itself – it became a joke when they gave it to Henry Kissinger.

No way. He’ll get his reward in that no person will ever want to get close to him for fear of being betrayed.

People say they want transparency in government, but when someone gives it to them the response is “kill the messenger”.

I think its a wonderful idea.