> even though the Snowden revelations were a "scandal", nothing bad really happened to the perpetrators This is true, and bad, but consider another difference

> even though the Snowden revelations were a "scandal", nothing bad really happened to the perpetrators This is true, and bad, but consider another difference in this situation: In the US, companies were able to respond to this revelation by shoring up their security practices, and people exercised their right to openly criticize the government. This is not possible in China.