There's nothing "edge case" about this. Attempts to articulate the "other side" of the NSA scandal have been amongst the worst instances of reporting and the gr

There's nothing "edge case" about this. Attempts to articulate the "other side" of the NSA scandal have been amongst the worst instances of reporting and the greatest sources of misunderstanding we've had to deal with, and they can be found right in the bullseye center of the NSA conversation. I'd say a better candidate for Golden Rule of the Internet is the tendency of people to collapse meaningful distinctions, and think that policing those distinctions is pedantry relating to far-off hypotheticals, but not to instances of their own behavior.