爱德华·约瑟夫·斯诺登（Edward Joseph Snowden）曾担任计算机情报顾问，2013年他从国家安全局泄露了高度机密的信息，当时他是中央情报局的雇员和分包商。他的披露披露了许多全球监控计划，其中许多由国家安全局和五眼情报联盟（Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance）与电信公司和欧洲政府合作实施，并引发了关于国家安全和个人隐私的文化讨论。
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
我不能凭良心让美国政府用他们秘密建造的这台巨大的监控机器破坏世界各地人民的隐私、互联网自由和基本自由。
Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.
做一个爱国者并不意味着优先为政府服务。作为一个爱国者意味着知道什么时候保护你的国家，知道什么时候保护你的宪法，知道什么时候保护你的同胞不受敌人的侵犯和侵犯。那些对手不一定是外国。
I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.
我不想生活在这样一个社会里。。。我不想生活在一个我所做所说的都被记录下来的世界里。这不是我愿意支持或生活的东西。
Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn't hurt anybody else.
有时候为了做正确的事，你必须违法。关键在于公民抗命。你必须确保你所冒的风险，你带给自己的，不会对其他人造成伤害。它不会伤害任何人。
I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.
我不想生活在一个我所做所说的都被记录下来的世界里。这不是我愿意支持或生活的东西。
I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.
我曾任系统工程师、系统管理员、中央情报局高级顾问、解决方案顾问和电信信息系统官员。
Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone.
每个人都记得他们生命中的某个时刻，他们目睹了一些大大小小的不公正，并把目光移开，因为干预的后果似乎太吓人了。但每个人所能容忍的不文明、不平等和不人道的程度是有限的。我越界了。我不再孤单。
All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.
我现在只能说，美国政府不能通过监禁或谋杀我来掩盖这一点。真理来了，它是无法阻止的。