When Snowden published information about the government surveiling it’s own citizens, which you should have known since the patriot act, he was being a hero. Until then people wanted to keep their head in the sand and deny that the government was going to use the patriot act the way those of us who protested it said they would.
When Snowden published stuff about the government spying on foreign assets, he became a traitor to our country. We spy on other people? NO FUCKING SHIT, that’s what it’s call intelligence agencies. He did immense damage to national security and the safety of the free world.
People have argued, well maybe we shouldn’t be spying at all, well maybe ,but for now EVERYONE does it, and it’s part of avoiding major wars. Sure, I would rather live in a star Trek universe, but for now we don’t, and this didn’t help that. Every country spies on each other.
But it was never ok to spy on our own citizens, and that needs to prevented in the future. Remember that the next time something like the patriot act comes up.