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The headline itself lays out why he was relegated to obscurity: The first congressman to battle the NSA is dead. No-one noticed, no-one cares. The echo chamber

The headline itself lays out why he was relegated to obscurity: The first congressman to battle the NSA is dead. No-one noticed, no-one cares. The echo chamber that is HN and Reddit /r/politics does not make the USA as a whole. No matter how egregious the things you think Snowden reveals over the next year: the majority of the USA doesn't give a damn.

nitrogen 13y ago
That's just a communications problem.
powera 13y ago
... lots of people who were in Congress 30 years ago die, and almost never is it "important news". Just because it hits some popular current buzzwords shouldn't really change this.