I find "why are we only now getting upset" remarks to be as silly as the "what are you hiding?" ones. The reason there was zero support/interest in that the ess

I find "why are we only now getting upset" remarks to be as silly as the "what are you hiding?" ones. The reason there was zero support/interest in that the essay is that it failed to hit close to home to the general population. I had no idea the thing even existed. And therein lies the interesting thing about the Snowden leaks. They were tailor-made to get people riled up over something that they could mostly understand, and the media actually covered it to some degree (although they could have done more). Just like people get cringey when you throw around the "T" word, a government overreaching like this will piss off liberal and conservative American non-politicians alike. What the NSA is doing is wrong, and it doesn't matter WHY people are up in arms now versus X number of years later. That's completely irrelevant. We should all be stoked that we're still seeing discussion about this a month+ later.