A few days back, one of my colleagues wrote about Edward Snowden's appearance on the JRE. In his post, he talked about how freely Snowden was able to communicate his motivation for the actions he took in 2013. In another post, he wrote about the various changes that have taken place in the internet space since those revelations. In both cases, the posts have been from the perspective, or at least with the assumption, that in an aggregate, those revelations were positive. I think it is important to...