All the organizations in question have a permanent smut on their record. The angle I'm missing in this discussion is that this is a business opportunity for something new and better. Acquiring new users for a search engine, social network, etc was damn near impossible because you couldn't compete with the resources, quality and brand. Now they have a flaw; privacy. Maybe the homogeneous landscape of the tech industry can get shaken up. Kim Dotcom is creating an anonymous email service and I'm curious to see what other alternatives for common tech pops into existence in the wake of this.

Changing a government will take a lot of time; but a business outside the reach of US legislation could pop up tomorrow.