{"id":11266,"date":"2014-03-20T02:44:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T06:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=11266"},"modified":"2014-03-20T02:44:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T06:44:49","slug":"edward-snowden-makes-surprise-ted-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/edward-snowden-makes-surprise-ted-visit.php","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden makes surprise TED visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>March. 19 (UPI) -- Edward Snowden  is making the rounds on the conference circuit.  <\/p>\n<p>    A week after participating in a South by Southwest    panel, the NSA whistleblower made a surprise visit to the    TED event in Toronto Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<p>    Appearing via robot, controlled from an \"undisclosed location,\"    Snowden spoke with TED organizer Chris Anderson, and later,    inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee.  <\/p>\n<p>    I believe a magna carta for the internet is exactly what we    need, Snowden said, echoing Berners-Lee's call for an \"Internet    bill of rights.\" We need to encode our values not just in    writing but in the structure of the internet.  <\/p>\n<p>    I think the internet that weve enjoyed in the past has been    exactly what we, not just as a nation but as a people around    the world, need, he said, calling for tech companies to make    SSL inscription the standard for web browsing.  <\/p>\n<p>    Anderson asked Berners-Lee if Snowden is a hero or a traitor,    and Berners-Lee responded, \"Hero, if you have to make the    choice between the two.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Watch their whole conversation:  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2014\/03\/19\/Edward-Snowden-makes-surprise-TED-visit\/2081395237797\/\/RS=^ADAO6L1dSQZ5an2P9nIIuokXYIp1A4-\" title=\"Edward Snowden makes surprise TED visit\">Edward Snowden makes surprise TED visit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> March. 19 (UPI) -- Edward Snowden is making the rounds on the conference circuit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}