It really is an interesting character study, isn’t it? You don’t see Snowden “starting a revolution” in the Assange sense, building a website, setting up paypal donations, creating a larger-than-life caricature of himself, embroiling other people unwittingly, or generally stirring up that sort of trouble. It’s different. Snowden is a completely different kind of revolutionary.
Not that I’m panning Assange for what he did when he did it. The type of digital counter-culture Assange was starting up was all so new at the time. How could that have gone any differently than it did? Probably most people thought you’d have to shout down the Iraq warmongers, to get anything to change, because their voice was so strong at the time.
I’m sure Julian Assange would have done things differently, been a little smarter about his physical movements. But, overall, could it have been different and more productive? You tell me, because I honestly don’t know how it could have been different than it is.
