Those aren't quite comparable. How many people have died because of American attempts to 'shape opinion, control the dissemination of information, and directly

Those aren't quite comparable. How many people have died because of American attempts to 'shape opinion, control the dissemination of information, and directly reporting users to the law enforcement for problematic searches?' Sure Russia is much worse than the US but Americans are still being persecuted for smoking weed which is just absurd.