It isn’t an issue of stupidity. Not like “Edward Snowden” is a name you can conjure up from first principles.
He was headline news back in 2008 and now he’s not. Anyone who wasn’t following national news nearly twenty years ago likely won’t be familiar with him. No more than a Millennial is going to know who Daniel Ellsberg or Robert W. Jackson are.
The entire Wikileaks project has been more or less obliterated.
He has been largely forgotten. Recently we were talking about data collection with my slightly younger gf (21) when I mentioned him. Turns out she never even heard his name. It’s not that she’s stupid or does not care about privacy, he just hasn’t been mentioned in mainstream media for over a decade, nobody makes reels about him on Instagram/tiktok. Tbh I haven seen him mentioned all that often on lemmy too.
With the rise of fascist parties worldwide, and especially here in the EU, and talks of AI, privacy seems to have taken a back seat in mainstream discourse.
It has to be so. No way the general populace is that stupid.
Even if it wasn’t Murica (they’re that stupid), most GenZ or-whatever-the-tag-is was in diapers during the 2010s so yeah, there’s a generation who hasn’t heard (or cares) about him.
I have to belive that most of these quizzes where “reporter” walks around asking questions are fake or just show the stupidest answers.
It has to be so. No way the general populace is that stupid. Please say they are fake.
Edit; Love how many people take their time to comment how obscure Edward Snowden is now, when i meant these quizzes as general.
Yeah. I take that pretty much as a given.
It isn’t an issue of stupidity. Not like “Edward Snowden” is a name you can conjure up from first principles.
He was headline news back in 2008 and now he’s not. Anyone who wasn’t following national news nearly twenty years ago likely won’t be familiar with him. No more than a Millennial is going to know who Daniel Ellsberg or Robert W. Jackson are.
The entire Wikileaks project has been more or less obliterated.
When I looked it up, the Oliver interview was 11 years ago, and Snowden was still fairly fresh in the public consciousness.
He has been largely forgotten. Recently we were talking about data collection with my slightly younger gf (21) when I mentioned him. Turns out she never even heard his name. It’s not that she’s stupid or does not care about privacy, he just hasn’t been mentioned in mainstream media for over a decade, nobody makes reels about him on Instagram/tiktok. Tbh I haven seen him mentioned all that often on lemmy too.
With the rise of fascist parties worldwide, and especially here in the EU, and talks of AI, privacy seems to have taken a back seat in mainstream discourse.
Even if it wasn’t Murica (they’re that stupid), most GenZ or-whatever-the-tag-is was in diapers during the 2010s so yeah, there’s a generation who hasn’t heard (or cares) about him.
That’s Gen Alpha at that point.