People criticizing Bill Gates' opinion is fine, but doing so on the basis of the fact that he is very rich is silly. I don't think Snowden is a hero either, and

People criticizing Bill Gates' opinion is fine, but doing so on the basis of the fact that he is very rich is silly. I don't think Snowden is a hero either, and I'm just a working shlub. Obviously, I think there are perfectly legitimate reasons to not think he's a hero that have nothing to do with whether or not you run a multibillion dollar corporation. I wouldn't say the reason for my opinion is that he broke the law, but I don't think that's what Gates meant by saying that either; I think that what he meant was that the law that Snowden broke exists for a good reason, and that the manner in which he broke it was bad.