Comment by Clubber
>The obsession with Snowden as a messianic figure is unhelpful in contextualizing the information.
Damn the gall, give it a rest. Again, methods and scope. Which one of those exposes PRISM, XKeyScore and the NSA infiltrating Google servers? Which one of those exposes the companies that willingly "integrated" with the NSA?
Which of those exposes US government spying on allied governments, recording private conversations, etc?
Saying Snowden didn't reveal anything is a silly hill to die on. What is your prerogative in minimizing the exposure? Do you work for one of the companies implicated in participating in prism or something?
Microsoft joined PRISM on 9/11/2007 (fitting)
Yahoo joined PRISM on 3/12/08
Google joined PRISM on 1/4/09
Facebook joined PRISM on 6/3/09
YouTube joined PRISM on 9/24/10
Skype joined PRISM on 2/6/11
AOL joined PRISM on 3/11/11
Apple, the last holdout on the list, joined PRISM 10/12 (after Jobs died).
OP, this is why it seems nobody cares, there's plenty of people trying to sway public opinion on the matter by minimizing it. Nobody wants to believe their government would do things like this, so when someone offers that, "hey it's not so bad," they want to believe it. We've always been at war with Eastasia.
Weird take. You have all these aspersions to cast on me and saying I'm trying to "sway public opinion by minimizing" when I'm literally telling one person to learn more about these subjects so they'll be less ignorant.