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To be fair, it's really the level of independent journalism and free speech in the US that makes it better than China. Yes, the NSA has done terrible things in
by bb88 8y ago
To be fair, it's really the level of independent journalism and free speech in the US that makes it better than China.
Yes, the NSA has done terrible things in the past. The only way we know about it is because of journalism.
- sschueller 8y agoBut sadly those journalist and whistle-blowers are being hounded by the US government and threatened with death by high up government officials.
- bb88 8y agoEdward Snowden, whistleblower, yes. Glenn Greenwald, reporter, no.
- simiones 8y agoMostly we know about it because of now jailed or internationally-wanted 'traitors' or 'enemies of state'; the journalists who agreed to publish the initial stories are few and far between.