It is the right questions to ask except he should have used "NSA" or "US government" rather than "the NSA Scandale". That sounds like it was Edward Snowden that did the damage to US companies, while in reallity it is extremly naive to think that spying on that scale, probably involving more than hundred thousand people could possibly be kept secret forever, something they apparently did. If anyone is to blame for an backlash, it is NSA and the US government.
Google will suck up shamelessly to the HN crowd to distract from the fact they sold us out instead of using their clout to fight the NSA.<p>Interesting how it was a single brave person who put his life on the line and changed the world.<p><i>And the weak things of the world will confound the mighty</i> (1 Cor. 1:27)