{"id":27629,"date":"2020-05-05T14:20:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T04:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27629"},"modified":"2020-05-05T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T04:20:22","slug":"snowden-warns-governments-are-using-coronavirus-to-build-the-architecture-of-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27629","title":{"rendered":"Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build \u2018the Architecture of Oppression\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Snowden_On_Coronavirus_Response.jpg\" alt=\"Snowden On Coronavirus Response\" class=\"wp-image-27630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Snowden_On_Coronavirus_Response.jpg 638w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Snowden_On_Coronavirus_Response-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The future may be unpredictable, but global pandemics aren\u2019t. There isn\u2019t a single government on the planet that hasn\u2019t been warned, repeatedly, that at some point a viral pandemic will sweep the globe, causing untold death and economic disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet most failed to prepare for the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery academic, every researcher who&#8217;s looked at this knew this was coming,\u201d says famed whistleblower Edward Snowden in an exclusive interview with VICE co-founder Shane Smith. \u201cYet when we needed it, the system has now failed us, and it has failed us comprehensively.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snowden is the first guest in the new \u201cShelter in Place\u201d series airing on VICE TV on Thursday at 10 p.m. EST, which looks at the global response to COVID-19 and its lasting impact around the world. Smith discussed these themes, as well as how to survive quarantine, with a host of thinkers from science, entertainment, economics, and journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the premiere episode, Smith talks to Snowden, who blew the lid off of the National Security Agency\u2019s surveillance of the American people in 2012. In the interview conducted from Smith\u2019s home in Santa Monica over video chat, the two tackle topics including the lack of preparedness in the face of a global pandemic, how long this will be a threat to humanity, and whether the power we\u2019re handing to global leaders will come back and bite us in the ass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_ca\/article\/bvge5q\/snowden-warns-governments-are-using-coronavirus-to-build-the-architecture-of-oppression\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_ca\/article\/bvge5q\/snowden-warns-governments-are-using-coronavirus-to-build-the-architecture-of-oppression<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future may be unpredictable, but global pandemics aren\u2019t. There isn\u2019t a single government on the planet that hasn\u2019t been warned, repeatedly, that at some point a viral pandemic will sweep the globe, causing untold death and economic disruption. And yet most failed to prepare for the novel coronavirus. \u201cEvery academic, every researcher who&#8217;s looked &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build \u2018the Architecture of Oppression\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27631,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27629\/revisions\/27631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}