What will you do with the truth they gave you?

WHAT WE OWE SNOWDEN, ASSANGE, AND REALITY WINNER

Whistleblowing in the surveillance age isn’t a leak. It’s a sacrifice.

We throw the word “whistleblower” around like it’s a protected role, a noble duty insulated by law and supported by society. But look closer. In practice, whistleblowing in the digital era means exile, prison, solitary confinement, or worse. When you expose the truth about unchecked state power, you don’t become a hero. You become a target.

Three names haunt this battlefield: Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Reality Winner.

They didn’t just disrupt the machine. They revealed the architecture of control behind it. And we owe them more than hashtags and retrospective praise.

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