Calling Snowden a 'traitor' is a very ill omen for us as a country. There are many parallels to Ellsberg, but I feel that he had more public defenders/support than Snowden. We've moved even farther to the stance that any action taken against/criticism of the state is unpatriotic and a stone's throw away from traitorous. This was especially the mentality immediately after 9/11 and it clouded our judgment so much that having a reasonable discussion about invading other countries was impossible. 13 years later, we've traded our own privacy and the respect of most of the world for bombing the intractable enemies our war-like tendencies created in the first place.

It's also an ill omen that Andreessen, one of the poster-children for a transformative, open medium would come down on the side of a secret, power-drunk apparatus vs. a civil disobedient who used said medium to try to wake up a complacent populous.