• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    That Snowden releasing the facts and it being brought up in courts, state congress, and federal congress as well as national news all revolved around it being illegal in the USA.

    In the PRC it’s only illegal to talk about it.

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      That Snowden releasing the facts and it being brought up in courts, state congress, and federal congress as well as national news all revolved around it being illegal in the USA.

      Did it stop?

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        11 hours ago

        Did you ignore the part where it’s not illegal to talk about?

        Yeah, the US is fucked, and there are some decent comparisons to China… But government control and oversight of business isn’t one of them.

        In fact, it’s something that’s severely lacking in the US. We have the complete opposite problem.

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        1 day ago

        The specific program Snowden revealed supposedly ended in 2015, it collected information such as who was calling who and for how long. The 9th Circuit actually ruled it clearly illegal in 2020 and Snowden made a Tweet about it in a relatively good mood.