As February 11 drew to a close , '' The New York Times '' posted a blog titled " The Day the Internet Did n't Fight Back , " reporting that " the protest on Tuesday barely registered . Wikipedia did not participate . Reddit … added an inconspicuous banner to its homepage . Sites like Tumblr , Mozilla and DuckDuckGo , which were listed as organizers , did not include the banner on their homepages . The eight major technology companies — Google , Microsoft , Facebook , AOL , Apple , Twitter , Yahoo and LinkedIn … only participated Tuesday insofar as having a joint website flash the protest banner . " An analysis released by the New America Foundation in January 2014 reviewed 225 terrorism cases since the September 11 attacks found that the NSA 's bulk collection of phone records " has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism , " and that U.S. government claims of the program 's usefulness were " overblown . " On June 17 , 2013 , nearly two weeks after the first disclosure was published , Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily briefing , " We believe the United States should pay attention to the international community 's concerns and demands and give the international community the necessary explanation . " The '' South China Morning Post '' published a poll of Hong Kong residents conducted while Snowden was still in Hong Kong that showed that half of the 509 respondents believed the Chinese government should not surrender Snowden to the United States if Washington raises such a request ; 33 percent of those polled think of Snowden as a hero , 12.8 percent described him as a traitor , 36 percent said he was neither
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Reactions to global surveillance disclosures