The thing is: The moment you feel you could be observed or that you have no room for private thought or discussion, you start to censor yourself. Political disc

The thing is: The moment you feel you could be observed or that you have no room for private thought or discussion, you start to censor yourself. Political discourse starts to get weakened. My gut feeling is this: Many people don't dare to express their true opinions even in supposedly private channels, fearing that these thoughts / ideas might come back at them years later. And I don't even mean radical thoughts. In a world where we non-americans are asked for our cellphone passwords, laptops, social media handles and passwords, how can we dare to criticize world affairs? Or imagine you are a young ambitious person who wants to change something by participating in the political process. You spend years getting somewhere, and then comes an info out of nowhere about your past and stops your carreer abruptly (like you cheated on your university diploma or something like that).