So you would also find it perfectly normal if in the pre-Internet era the US government would open each and ever letter and parcel send from outside the US. I'

So you would also find it perfectly normal if in the pre-Internet era the US government would open each and ever letter and parcel send from outside the US. I'm old enough to remember regimes in which that was common practice back in the day. I know people who grew up in them. We did not refer the them as either friendly or free and democratic nations. But congrats on being a sovereign nation, and good luck with that. In, say, 20 years time you may find yourself on the wrong side of the modern electronic version of the iron curtain.