Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations.

[CleanShavenJesus]

Personally, I don't care if the government listens in on my phone call to my nephew about how his grades in school are, or if the government hacks into my google history and finds porn sites. What're they going to do? Threaten to email the sites to my mother?

The debate of whether or not it's okay for the government to tap into these things is different than the debate of whether or not the government should be permitted to keep the fact that they're doing it secret. Now that I know, I don't really mind. But if something this huge has been kept under wraps for years, who knows what else they could be hiding.

You don't see the potential for abuse and the chilling effect that this sort of surveillance could have on dissent?

Enlighten me.