I upvoted you because you are right. Yes, arguably there is a bit more press freedom in the US and it's not repressed as hard and brutally as in Russia/China.

I upvoted you because you are right. Yes, arguably there is a bit more press freedom in the US and it's not repressed as hard and brutally as in Russia/China. In the US, soft repression mostly does the job: lobby-ism, buying up media or ruining journalists' careers for doing their job. And when it doesn't, they can make up a false case and then become as brutal as their Russian/Chinese counterparts.