I lost my flagging privileges sometime around Snowden's seat's flight to Cuba, but what's the "hacker" angle here that wouldn't be covered by the metric ton of

I lost my flagging privileges sometime around Snowden's seat's flight to Cuba, but what's the "hacker" angle here that wouldn't be covered by the metric ton of articles in mainstream sources that will report on this decision? Isn't this just "news"? Or were there a host of YC startups planning on not covering some forms of birth control for their employees? Seems unlikely.