Pedophilia is a taboo in the entire western world. Especially, homosexual pedophilia is something that you never get away with. When you can't win an argument against bitcoin or TOR for example, all you have to do is drop the sentence 'pedophiles use it to [...]' and you're able to see even the most liberal people taking a step back.
That's to say that pedophilia is something unacceptable by 99,9999% of UK's (and probably large part of the world's) population.
What Snowden did, was eventually hailed by some newspapers, but not without very cautious words. No one in the 'establishment' called him a Hero. Keith Alexander is still there IIRC the Obama administration didn't accept any sort of discussion about bringing him back without penalties, etc. Most importantly, the political hypocrisy is backed by the sentiment of betrayal which is strong even among the US population. Even in this thread you can see people arguing that it was planned - which IMHO is stupid and doesn't make sense but anyway - or it was a mistaken move, etc.
So while the one situation finds all parts aligned the other, even after the revelations came true and minor actions where taken in the right direction, doesn't. And if the IT community understands the repercussions of his actions, so much that you compared the two situations, most people don't know enough to understand and care about what's going on and how important online privacy will be in the future. But give them a pedophile and people will burn him alive (maybe, just maybe... rightly so).
That's to say that pedophilia is something unacceptable by 99,9999% of UK's (and probably large part of the world's) population.
What Snowden did, was eventually hailed by some newspapers, but not without very cautious words. No one in the 'establishment' called him a Hero. Keith Alexander is still there IIRC the Obama administration didn't accept any sort of discussion about bringing him back without penalties, etc. Most importantly, the political hypocrisy is backed by the sentiment of betrayal which is strong even among the US population. Even in this thread you can see people arguing that it was planned - which IMHO is stupid and doesn't make sense but anyway - or it was a mistaken move, etc.
So while the one situation finds all parts aligned the other, even after the revelations came true and minor actions where taken in the right direction, doesn't. And if the IT community understands the repercussions of his actions, so much that you compared the two situations, most people don't know enough to understand and care about what's going on and how important online privacy will be in the future. But give them a pedophile and people will burn him alive (maybe, just maybe... rightly so).