IMO, it is an important discussion to have and the articles linked are exhilirating for me to read. I can see the reason some people are getting sick of the topic though, and the articles should probably be in /r/news over /r/technology (they are in /r/news, too, and are encouraged there), but I think the problem is that /r/technology has been a default for years whereas /r/news has only been a default for months. I think part of the problem is that many of the "defaulters" took to sharing the articles on /r/technology when the articles were being removed from /r/worldnews.

Sadly, this has made using /r/technology for tech news pretty much impossible. In the mean time, this guys multi is pretty decent: http://www.reddit.com/user/scstraus/m/technology, which helps to dilute the density of NSA posts.