That answer is so silly that it's difficult to imagine that it isn't just very poorly phrased. Especially considering that Microsoft was found to have broken th

That answer is so silly that it's difficult to imagine that it isn't just very poorly phrased. Especially considering that Microsoft was found to have broken the law on Gates' watch (ok, sure, Gates probably wouldn't claim to be a hero). Anyway, plenty of heros broke the law. Revolutionaries, civil rights activists etc. I'm sure Gates and many other rich people would agree that many such figures qualify as heroes. That of course doesn't mean that everyone who breaks the law, every revolutionary, every civil rights activist is a hero, far from it, and crucially does not get us any closer to deciding whether Snowden is a hero.