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How do you balance that with the cases where Governments (extra-US/federal/state/local) have been implicated in correspondence with private businesses to obtain
by OrvalWintermute 5y ago
How do you balance that with the cases where Governments (extra-US/federal/state/local) have been implicated in correspondence with private businesses to obtain takedowns of politically unpopular positions?
This gives the appearance of a Freedom of Speech issue, but it is actually more complex than that.
- cableshaft 5y agoJust because the law is in place doesn't mean governments aren't going to do some shady shit anyway. I'm not trying to say that the US government is free from corruption or stretching/overstepping those boundaries. Hell, just look at what Snowden leaked a decade ago about the NSA mass surveillance of its own citizens. But generally speaking, we do have some checks in place that at least so far have kept us from going as far as China has.