Ecuador's the perfect place for Snowden. [View all]
Of course he wants to spend the rest of his life there, since he's so concerned with freedom and transparency.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-ecuador-snowden-asylum-20130624,0,570296.story
Even as journalists spent much of Monday chasing the whereabouts of Edward Snowden, officials in Ecuador announced they were reviewing the former National Security Agency contractor’s request for asylum.
Snowden’s choice of country to call home struck me as rich with irony. If his decision to leak top-secret information about the NSA program was born out of concerns for the state of democracy in the United States, then his decision to seek refuge in Ecuador is odder still.
After all, Ecuador just approved one of the harshest media laws in the region. Critics say the new laws will probably prompt many private broadcasters and websites to shut down for fear of being prosecuted. Under the sweeping new rules, websites are now liable for reader comments, unless the online outlets create a system for monitoring comments and registering readers. And the new law allows the government to impose sanctions and fines against media outlets that "omit facts" or fail to provide "balanced reports."
As the Committee to Protect Journalists' Carlos Lauria told the Miami Herald in a statement: “The law not only undermines journalists’ ability to report critically but threatens the right of citizens to be informed about sensitive issue."
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