No surveillance agency in the world has the resources or the technical know-how or easy access to a selection of the world's finest companies offering Internet-

No surveillance agency in the world has the resources or the technical know-how or easy access to a selection of the world's finest companies offering Internet-enabled services and operating systems and standardization committees for encryption algorithms. The US government also has the longest arm in terms of demands it can make to other governments. And us foreigners have no chance of fighting the NSA, because we aren't US citizens, remember? (surprise, us foreigners have feelings too) And "filtering, censorship and worse" happens in spite of US governance. So we have to worry about the US government, in addition to local threats. Because 1 + 1 = 2. And don't get me wrong, we never trusted the US government, but we trusted US companies to do the right thing, given your strong and stable Constitution. But apparently your government found ways to coerce your companies into doing whatever they want and make you shut up about it. And that's why it's not the US government's governance I'd worry about, but rather I'd worry about the bottom line of your companies that have brought so much innovation and that are going to get punished in the international marketplace while not being guilty. The US really needs to do something to repair their image and fast. And statements such as yours really do seem disingenuous or ignorant about what this whole thing means for us and does nothing to repair the loss of trust.