Suck it up, Snowden-haters: New Yorker on "Why Citizenfour Deserved Its Oscar"

[Aerows]

241. I cherish

the hatred and drink the tears of those who wish Edward Snowden would just go away and be a nobody, the things that he revealed about the Surveillance State to never be discussed, and those that only agree with it because it was under the Obama administration (while conveniently forgetting it started under the Bush administration).

I don't like the subversion of the American justice system the Surveillance state makes possible. I don't like the fig leaf of the "FISA Court" that makes a mockery of the justice system.

Mostly, though, I don't like persecution of whistleblowers. There has never been a whistleblower in history that hasn't been prosecuted, hounded, vilified, and the end acknowledged that they were right to speak up. For a recent example, I'll point to Watergate.