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‘Mass surveillance doesn't work’: Snowden lashes out at Russia’s new anti-terror bill
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has criticized Russia's new anti-terrorist legislation draft that’s related to communications security. He stressed that the bill endangers liberty “without improving security. The former CIA employee, now residing in Russia as a temporary asylum holder, spoke against the legislation, which is part of a package of anti-terrorism bills prepared by a group of lawmakers headed by Chair of the State Duma Committee for Security Irina Yarovaya. Having called it a "Big Brother law," Snowden tweeted that it's "an unworkable, unjustifiable violation of rights that should never be signed."
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Sure. You're hiding out in Russia because you're wanted by the U.S. Government for espionage and violating numerous Federal Laws, and if you go just about anywhere else in the world you're either going to get arrested, or end up with a bullet in the back of your head, but yeah go ahead and start criticizing the Russian Government that's allowed you to hide out in their country.