Today’s society aims to live a life that is consuming everything with the life practices of the culture industry. Even the knowledge has become the object of consumption with only the information dimension. On the other hand, pure knowledge has been transformed into a tool for power to rebuild itself. Since knowledge is a powerful phenomenon that illuminates society about all managerial processes, individuals who have enough knowledge are free to use this information in all kinds of living spaces and processes. Thus, realizing what is political, they need free and pure knowledge for better governance, human rights and a better hope of democracy. When they understand the political better, they need free and pure knowledge for better management, human rights and a more robust hope for democracy. On the other hand, information can be turned into a great instrument of power for the benefit of all mankind. Global governance mechanisms and actors think that information should be partially freed. According to them, for the welfare of society, knowledge of the public should be only in the hands of the elite class who holds the managerial mechanisms. Therefore, the original information is reserved. At the same time, where and how this information is accumulated is another topic of discussion. States keep the society and the individual under control, and collect all kinds of data about them with all the means (via digital or other media). Thus, no information that is spoken, written or shared can be personal.

While this is the case, discourse actors who share the consciousness that knowledge is freedom, engage in the struggle to explain discourse in order people to have unlimited access to information and acquire the necessary knowledge about the realities. Edward Snowden is a good example of this. In this study, the culture created by the digitalization of society and the state, the flow of information in digital environments, the struggle for the establishment, closure and dissemination of discourse are discussed in the case of the Edward Snowden Incident.