Is Snowden worth it?

... For instance, twitter entries coming along with the hashtag #Snowden are increasing in number every ten seconds. In may, Snowden arrived to Hong Kong in the hope of avoiding prosecution in the U.S. He claimed he would be happy to live wherever the freedom of speech was real. In his own words, he is seeking "asylum from any countries that believe in free speech and oppose the victimization of global privacy". U.S. telecom data collection is part of the national counterterrorism strategy by virtue of which there has been just a few acts of terrorism on the U.S. soil. Far more planned attacks were revealed. The Snowden leak exposed that nine Internet companies (namely Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL,...