On December 17, the current US President met with the heads of several US IT companies, such as Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo, and many others. Among the guests of the White House was the founder of the company Zynga, the same studio that put the whole world on the game FarmVille, known in Russia as “Farm Frenzy”.
President Obama invited the titans of the IT industry to his reception for a reason. He planned to talk with them about the health care reform he was promoting, ask them for advice on the government website Healthcare.gov, which in the midst of the incarnation of the reform could not bear the burden and simply ceased to function, and also ask what support these companies need from the state. The dinner was held in a calm atmosphere until the head of the Zynga company asked Barack Obama a question about Edward Snowden straight from the front.
Mark Pincus, the head of the game studio Zynga, has always been distinguished by straightforwardness. So this time, he remained true to himself and simply asked the US president to drop the charges on the former CIA employee who was on the run, who had recently shed light on several unpleasant moments regarding the espionage activity of US government departments.
“I cannot do this,” the president answered the question very shortly.
However, in the course of his further conversation, he repeatedly noted that in the future he wanted to see a completely open, free and innovative Internet, in which global surveillance of each and every one would not be conducted. He also said that he was ready to listen attentively to the opinion of everyone present on how to bring all this to life.
Recall that last week Edward Snowden published a new batch of secret documents, which reveal the essence of yet another spy program of American and British intelligence. It turns out that secret agents track terrorists even within multiplayer online computer games. For example, surveillance is carried out on users of the world's largest MMORPG World of Warcraft, as well as regularly checked data from the Xbox Live gaming network, which is owned by Microsoft.
Based on kotaku.com
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