This is more than a loaded question. HN has its own views, but they also have an information set perhaps not widely available. The better framing is that, given

This is more than a loaded question. HN has its own views, but they also have an information set perhaps not widely available. The better framing is that, given a(n equal) technical understanding of what NSA is doing, where would the majority stand? I don't think they would stand with the government's over-reach. The red-states don't really go for that, and the blue states don't really go for it either: it's anti-liberal in a different sense. What the NSA is really doing here is protecting the 1%, in the sense that those in power are merely seeking to stay in power at all costs. Ideology, constitution, and every other consideration be damned.