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Brad Smith in the Microsoft President, Brad Smith: Why We Urgently Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers (Business Strategy)

Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor?

In his book, Smith wrote that for many people, Snowden was both a hero and a traitor. Smith and his co-author didn’t take sides in the debate, but they framed the arguments. “I think what he did made the world smarter,” Smith told us. “He shared information that the world needed to have.”

“I’m not saying he shouldn't have any accountability. I recognize that there is accountability in what he did and I think that is in the essence of civil disobedience and it has been since Martin Luther King in the 1960s. It wasn’t people who were willing to take risks and said it should have no consequences. It was people who said that there would be consequences but the consequences in their minds were worth what they were trying to accomplish.”

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