The interesting part, from where I'm sitting, is that I don't think the younger generation will see any "error" in Snowden jetting to Hong Kong, nor in revealin

The interesting part, from where I'm sitting, is that I don't think the younger generation will see any "error" in Snowden jetting to Hong Kong, nor in revealing information about NSA surveillance on foreign targets. I think they see "people who are online" as a sort of kindred/nation in a way the older generations reserved for countrymen or foreign adherents to their own religious faith. And I don't mean to say they lack national identity or anything; nor that it's an extreme identification. I just mean that it seems, to me, their outrage is more about being spied on on Facebook, rather than being spied on in America. So if China had to find out about the spying for Americans to find out, I don't think they're going to rank "China is not our great friend" as more important than "online spying is wrong" and be all that divided on the issue of whether Snowden did anything wrong.