To clarify, I'm not defending it, just calling it like I see it. Outside the HN/SV bubble, most people are ambivalent about the US stealing foreign industrial

To clarify, I'm not defending it, just calling it like I see it. Outside the HN/SV bubble, most people are ambivalent about the US stealing foreign industrial secrets. It's simply very low on their priority list of things to care about. Hell, many Americans are fine with the "I've got nothing to hide so nothing to fear" and still don't even truly care about being spied on themselves by the NSA, much less foreign multinationals. So Snowden attacking the NSA over this issue is, at best, likely to be met with much less popular support, and at worst, could backfire on him.