, living in GRU safe house in Russia, who just deployed countrywide deep-packet inspection censorship and surveillance, quoted in Russia Today, a propaganda outlet, is certainly the authority to speak on "insulting privacy" 🤦‍♂️

@kravietz
Why do you say he lives in a GRU safe house? I know Snowden was rumoured to be in an FSB safe house immediately after he got stranded in Moscow Airport, but since then he has a job, residency and freedom of movement. I there any evidence I'm missing?

@rochelimit

Russian media saw Snowden in Yasenevo back in 2014. Yasenevo is GRU headquarters, not FSB. Also if he indeed has "freedom of movement", he hasn't been using it too much - he was never saw in any public place, never met with journalists or fans, basically there's no evidence of him actually being free to do anything. Regarding your mention of "policy of never interviewing for Russian media", there's also no evidence of him having freedom to any policy.

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@kravietz
Hi. Im not sure that is right. Laura Poitras says she has met him in Moscow, so had a German parliamentarian and the President of Argentina. He has been seen at the ballet, and TASS reported on his permanent residency.

Of course the evidence is relatively weak in places, but I have seen no positive evidence of a long term GRU safe house or of movement restrictions or of any interviews with Russian media, apart from your post. Have you?

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@rochelimit

I don't think you need "evidence of freedom restrictions" if if in 7 years he was allegedly (!) seen in person by 3 three people.

I'd rather ask for evidence for lack of restrictions, and so far there haven't been any. I don't think what we did see can be interpreted as anything else than carefully orchestrated evidence that he's still alive.

Once again: there's literally no evidence he wrote even a single word of the public opinions attributed to "Snowden" since 2014.

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