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Newsmax reports that according to according to KRC Research about 64 percent of Americans familiar with Snowden hold a negative opinion of him. However 56 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 have a positive opinion of Snowden which contrasts sharply with older age cohorts. Among those aged 35-44, some 34 percent have positive attitudes toward him. For the 45-54 age cohort, the figure is 28 percent, and it drops to 26 percent among Americans over age 55, U.S. News reported. Americans overall say by plurality that Snowden has done “more to hurt” U.S. national security (43 percent) than help it (20 percent). A similar breakdown was seen with views on whether Snowden helped or hurt efforts to combat terrorism, though the numbers flip on whether his actions will lead to greater privacy protections. “The broad support for Edward Snowden among Millennials around the world should be a message to democratic countries that change is coming,” says Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “They are a generation of digital natives who don’t want government agencies tracking them online or collecting data about their phone calls.” Opinions of millennials are particularly significant in light of January 2015 findings by the U.S. Census Bureau that they are projected to surpass the baby-boom generation as the United States’ largest living generation this year.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mendax on Thursday April 23 2015, @07:17PM
I would like to know who this "most" is. All but one of the people I know are not "millennials" and think that what Snowden did was a positive thing. My 65-year-old housemate and my 81-year-old father are cases in point. The one person I know who disagrees with me is a conservative Fox News echo chamber inhabitant who has no opinion except what he hears there.
On balance, Snowden's revelations have done far more good than bad, and hopefully will continue to bear positive fruit over the next decade as the truth of exactly what surveillance the U.S. government has been doing to its citizens continues to be revealed.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2015, @10:07PM
Do these numbers represent only the DC metropolitan area?
To get a security clearance in order to get a job with the gov't or with a gov't contractor, you have to be squeeky clean and can't have any record as a dissident.
In northern Virginia, there are lots of such folks who have drunk the kool-aid.
It sounds like those are the folks represented by this "study".
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @04:27PM
There are clearance-holding people that support what Ed Snowden did. While I have since left that environment for unrelated reasons, I was one such clearance-holding, Snowden supporter. I hope that if I had found myself in the same circumstances Ed did, that I would have had the courage to do the same as he.