I often thought that as well, but at the same time I also think it's a bit funny considering how the reason all this shit is happening is because the article that was taken out pretty much proves a conspiracy theory that the government has been taking part in this shilling business all over internet communities.

And Snowden and the NSA is something that I often heard mentioned before by conspiracy theorists, that they are monitoring everything, only to have skeptics hand wave and dimissively say "No one is interested in your porn habits", when in fact, they were:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html

And it just continues to get worse as the leaks go on.

I still don't consider myself a conspiracy theorist, but I remember arguing with my parents who harbored a belief that perhaps the government wasn't all too innocent in 9/11. Nowadays I'm not too keen to argue as hotly as I once did before, even if I still believe the Government doesn't have anything to do with 9/11.

I'm not so hot to defend America in any general sense anymore as I was back in the days. The NSA massive surveillance thing kinda was the last straw for me personally.