- Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales in Oxford: Snowden a 'hero'. It's very difficult for me to go to authoritarian countries and say, 'You shouldn’t spy on activists, you shouldn’t censor the internet', when [the US] is complicit in these acts of extraordinary intrusion into people’s personal lives. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/edward-snowden-nsa-wikipedia-founder 82 comments worldnews