As we are an internet-based community, using the internet for most of our interactions, we should pay attention to the developments on the Snowden case. The U.S. news (quite conveniently) haven't been covering all the details of the ongoing story, reporting more 'important' concerns like Lindsey Lohan, Prince George and Senator Cruz.

Keeping you distracted while they do the dirty work.

So here are some of the latest developments, THE IMPLICATIONS OF WHICH CAN BE VERY IMPORTANT.

- the Snowden story was broken by a Guardian News UK journalist, Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald has a life partner, David Miranda (how fitting, considering what happened to him).

Miranda was detained and held upon landing in the UK by British intelligence and interrogated for 9 hours, without any charges being filed. Not only did Miranda have his computer, USB flash drives, external hard drives, phone and computer games confiscated

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/.....lenn-greenwald

he was also forced to surrender his personal passwords under threat of incarceration

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20.....ntion-heathrow

- due to the threat of NSA oversight and, possibly, a sealed secret court order, the anonymous email system that Snowden used, Lavabit, has completely shut down

https://lavabit.com/

- today, due to the shutdown of Lavabit and the overall threat of email monitoring, the award-winning legal news website Groklaw as shut down, too

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?.....30818120421175


All these stories covered in The Register. The European press is covering the fallout much better than the American news.

All this is leading up to a possible viewpoint: information is being covered up and free speech will/is being silenced, all over the world for the sake of "national security".

Paranoia isn't just a fear if someone is watching you.