Apples to oranges. King was fighting against non technical, publicly understood, explicit interpretations of laws carried out by local/state police. Snowden

Apples to oranges. King was fighting against non technical, publicly understood, explicit interpretations of laws carried out by local/state police. Snowden was/is fighting against secret interpretations of laws dealing with highly technical subject matter carried out by secret police seeking national security on a global scale. Moreover, remember that as soon as King spoke out against the national security state in his Beyond Vietnam speech, a great many of his supporters abandoned him and the secret police drastically ramped up their campaign to neutralize him; he was assassinated exactly 1 year later.