At least you still have a public outcry when backdoors are found out. Though whistleblowers tend to have a bad fate regardless of the side they're on I think th

At least you still have a public outcry when backdoors are found out. Though whistleblowers tend to have a bad fate regardless of the side they're on I think they will at least not be point blank executed like the journalists executed on Putin's birthday. The west is heading in a bad direction too, no doubt about that, but Russia and China are already at an extremely dangerous level of totalitarianism and censorship.