[ringwalt]

You can play the moral relativist all you want, but American three-letter agencies are nothing close to the Great Firewall. There's a massive difference between out-of-sight surveillance (do you think China is any better than the NSA when it comes to spying on its own citizens?), and the chilling effect on free speech caused by banning things like any mention of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

I don't think the MSM has ever been any less propaganda than it is now, either. People are only able to take a more objective look at the news now because of unrestricted access to information.