“Perhaps Rui Pinto’s story could be of interest to the Web Summit”

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“Perhaps Rui Pinto’s story could be of interest to the Web Summit”

Paddy Cosgrave, head of the Web Summit, admits that he plans to invite Rui Pinto, head of Luanda Leaks and Football Leaks, to participate in the 2021 technology summit.

When asked if he addressed an invitation to Rui Pinto for this year’s edition, Cosgrave neither confirmed nor denied, as they say in soccer parlance.

“We may have invited him. We may not have invited him. I don’t know the answer to that question,” he commented, in statements made to the Renaissance in Lisbon.

Although he drew differences between Rui Pinto and Edward Snowden, a former CIA systems administrator who revealed secrets of the US administration, Paddy Cosgrave made some comparisons between the two.

“There is no reason why he should not speak in the next few years. Snowden is a kind of global superstar. I think Rui Pinto is the Portuguese Edward Snowden. And perhaps his story could be of interest to participants from all over the world. And He could be a very interesting speaker in 2021, ”confirms Paddy Cosgrave.

It is recalled that William Bourdon, one of Rui Pinto’s lawyers, announced the idea of ​​calling Edward Snowden, a former analyst for the United States National Security Agency (NSA), who denounced the vast global illegal surveillance program, as a witness to the judgment. Rui Pinto in the Doyen case.

Still in relation to the Web Summit, Paddy Cosgrave emphasizes that the summit is guided by pluralism, although some speakers tend to be the same given the importance that the organization believes it has.

“We do not pretend to be some kind of agency that can change the world. We can give people a voice,” explained Paddy Cosgrave, recalling that, in this year marked by the pandemic, the Web Summit will be held virtually, between the 2nd and the 4th. from December.