{"id":778,"date":"2025-04-20T16:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/?p=778"},"modified":"2025-04-20T16:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T16:01:24","slug":"phil-355e-whistleblowing-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/2025\/04\/20\/phil-355e-whistleblowing-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"PHIL 355E – Whistleblowing Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First, read this article:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cEdward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your question to answer is: Did Snowden do the right thing? Why or why not?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would argue that Edward Snowden did the right thing by disclosing those documents. After working in government intelligence for almost a decade and seeing the degradation of the public\u2019s privacy, he felt that he couldn\u2019t stand by and let it continue. He wanted internet freedom to remain with the public, and for its value to be retained. His goal was simply to inform the public and have them question the government\u2019s practices and mass surveillance. He even noted that the specific documents he disclosed, were ones he considered to be beneficial to public knowledge and that his goal isn\u2019t to harm, but for there to be more transparency. Furthermore, with the money he made, and the life that he had, an easier choice would be playing a bystander role. Additionally, with his amount of access to confidential information, he could have also sold it to other nations. Yet, he felt that the public\u2019s awareness of the government\u2019s intentions was more valuable than all of it. Even if it came at the cost of his safety and everything he had, the public\u2019s privacy is a right that should always be valued, and that is why Snowden\u2019s choice to be a whistleblower against the NSA for the public was morally correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, read this article:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cEdward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations.\u201d Your question to answer is: Did Snowden do the right thing? Why or why not? I would argue that Edward Snowden did the right thing by disclosing those documents. After working in government intelligence for almost a decade and seeing the degradation of … Continue reading PHIL 355E – Whistleblowing Case Study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24915,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}