The US has lost it's moral high ground over freedom and privacy, it's bordering on hypocritical. We know the Chinese government at the national level can see a

The US has lost it's moral high ground over freedom and privacy, it's bordering on hypocritical. We know the Chinese government at the national level can see at any time what is going on in Chinese variants of social networking sites (from the basis that all these servers are typically hosted in Beijing). What we didn't know was the US are doing this at a global level, and they have been trying to keep it secret all this time. That's something we did not realistically expect. In this particular instance, the US is no better than China in respecting and protecting the privacy of individuals, and not impinging on their freedoms. Snowden did the US citizens and the world a favour by exposing Prism. Now we can do something about it. Now we can seriously decide how important our privacy is. We see how deep the rabbit hole is. That's a starting point to correcting this.