<i>I would say that even if they collaborated with this under legal threats, they are still morally responsible for their decisions to support the surveillance state</i><p>Perhaps, but at some point they have to be excused if they were complying with the law.  It&#x27;s our jobs as citizens to ensure we have the right laws.  In a way, it&#x27;s kind of like blaming the soldiers for the 2003 Iraq war.  I don&#x27;t blame them.  I want them to fight their guts out believing that they are answering their highest calling (otherwise they lessen their odds of surviving it).<p>But I want the sonofabitch who sent them there and caused the deaths of all those innocent Iraqis to go to jail.