Headline of the Year?

[lsanderson]

Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft has lost customers, including the government of Brazil.

IBM is spending more than a billion dollars to build data centers overseas to reassure foreign customers that their information is safe from prying eyes in the United States government.

And tech companies abroad, from Europe to South America, say they are gaining customers that are shunning United States providers, suspicious because of the revelations by Edward J. Snowden that tied these providers to the National Security Agency’s vast surveillance program.

If only! If only that nasty no good evil nasty no good evil Mr. Snowdown had not snitched! Why, it would be Bonanzaville! Two chickens in every pot! But, no. That nasty no good evil nasty no good evil Mr. Snowdown snitched, and now our good outstanding good corporations are taking it the shorts!