[narag]

Isolation is a very bad thing. Seven years is too much. Feeling wronged, with the USA after you, confined to a building for someone used to travelling the world... I can understand a behaviour that I strongly dislike, including all kind of shit suggested by the only people that supported him.

So I'm sorry for him and Snowden, but I wouldn't trust either of them in their current circumstances.

[caprese]

odd to add Snowden to that

Assange was in a building, Snowden is in the largest country on the planet

[Waterluvian]

I get a sense that some think Snowden is hiding somewhere in Russia, under some form of house arrest.

My understanding is that he's pretty much free to move about the country.

[ShorsHammer]

He's tweeted as much. People do ask him about it and the response has always been he basically has no contact with the government anymore and lives a boring mundane life in a city somewhere. Make of that what you will.

As long as he doesn't speak ill of his hosts he'll probably be fairly safe for a while.

[narag]

I mentioned two causes why Assange should be excused and should not be trusted: physical isolation and being supported only by people of a mind.

Snowden is... where is he located exactly? Being hidden is a kind of isolation too.

And he is totally dependent on Russia. That makes all he says suspicious, at least to me. That's sad. I think he made something good and I feel sympathy for him. But again...

Edit: if isolated people end up approaching the ones hurting them (Stockholm syndrome), imagine what happens with people that are supposedly helping them.