On: Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse

[dredmorbius]

Snowden was far from the first to publicise NSA surveillance.

Snowden documented that surveillance in vastly more detail than had been done before, and deserves the thanks of citizens of the US and world for doing so.

(I listed a number of pre-Snowden revelations a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184956)