Wasn't saying that the US doesn't suppress dissent in it's own ways, just that it doesn't use it's domestic surveillance capabilities to do it by, say, assignin

Wasn't saying that the US doesn't suppress dissent in it's own ways, just that it doesn't use it's domestic surveillance capabilities to do it by, say, assigning each citizen a "patriotism score" based on their aggregate social media activity. And I agree with jMyles that the chilling effect of it all is bad as is. Still, it could be worse.