Hate speech isn't protected, in case you mean that. Governemt criticism and whistleblowing is generally regarded more highly. As far as I can tell Snowden is w

Hate speech isn't protected, in case you mean that. Governemt criticism and whistleblowing is generally regarded more highly. As far as I can tell Snowden is well respected and the idea of granting him asylum is fairly popular (it almost happened, but the US's pressure is strong). The laws in place aren't as good as you'd hope, though. The powers that be are, for some reason, not very happy with the idea of it becoming easier to expose their misbehavior, so protections for whistleblowers are not all that great. There was a recent attempt to pass a law that improves these protections, but it got watered down quite far.