You're being down voted because some people actually were aware of the extent of the data the NSA was hoovering up and wouldn't have thought of it as a crazy co

You're being down voted because some people actually were aware of the extent of the data the NSA was hoovering up and wouldn't have thought of it as a crazy conspiracy theory. Your average Joe on the street though would have thought this was crazy until Snowden made the extent of it known to a far wider audience, so I agree with your point.