{"id":25000,"date":"2015-09-07T02:15:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/edward-snowden-russias-treatment-of-gays-is-fundamentally-wrong\/"},"modified":"2015-09-07T02:15:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T06:15:10","slug":"edward-snowden-russias-treatment-of-gays-is-fundamentally-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/edward-snowden-russias-treatment-of-gays-is-fundamentally-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden: Russia\u2019s treatment of gays is \u2018fundamentally wrong\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Edward Snowden: Russia\u2019s treatment of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gays<\/a> is \u2018fundamentally wrong\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>US&nbsp;whistleblower Edward Snowden has said&nbsp;Russia&rsquo;s treatment of LGBTI people is &lsquo;fundamentally wrong.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>The fugitive, who has been living in an undisclosed location in the country since he was granted asylum there in June&nbsp;2013, made the comment while&nbsp;accepting the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression&rsquo;s Bjornson prize by videophone.<\/p>\n<p><span>Snowden&nbsp;described the country&rsquo;s crackdown on internet freedom as&nbsp;a &lsquo;mistake in policy.&rsquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&lsquo;It&rsquo;s wrong in <\/span>Russia<span>, and it would be wrong anywhere,&rsquo; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/sep\/05\/snowden-criticises-russia-internet-homosexuality\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a> quoted him as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;I&rsquo;ve been quite critical of [it] in the past and I&rsquo;ll continue to be in the future, because this drive that we see in the Russian government to control more and more the internet, to control more and more what people are seeing, even parts of personal lives, deciding what is the appropriate or inappropriate way for people to express their love for one another&hellip; [is] fundamentally wrong.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>Russia passed a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> &lsquo;propaganda&rsquo; law in 2013, banning the &lsquo;promotion&rsquo; of homosexuality to minors.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of a LGBTI youth website was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/founder-of-russian-lgbt-youth-website-fined-under-gay-propaganda-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\">fined under the law<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/edward-snowden-russias-treatment-of-gays-is-fundamentally-wrong\/\">Edward Snowden: Russia&rsquo;s treatment of gays is &lsquo;fundamentally wrong&rsquo;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/\">Gay Star News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Wee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/edward-snowden-russias-treatment-of-gays-is-fundamentally-wrong\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/edward-snowden-russias-treatment-of-gays-is-fundamentally-wrong\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Snowden: Russia\u2019s treatment of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gays<\/a> is \u2018fundamentally wrong\u2019 US&nbsp;whistleblower Edward Snowden has said&nbsp;Russia&rsquo;s treatment of LGBTI people is &lsquo;fundamentally wrong.&rsquo; The fugitive, who has been living in an undisclosed location in the country since he was granted asylum there in June&nbsp;2013, made the comment while&nbsp;accepting the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression&rsquo;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/edward-snowden-russias-treatment-of-gays-is-fundamentally-wrong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edward Snowden: Russia\u2019s treatment of gays is \u2018fundamentally wrong\u2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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