[stickfigure]

Funny, that's exactly what the dictators of Tunisa, Libya, and Egypt said during the Arab Spring of 2011.

[dessant]

Equating the concerns of a citizen over their perceived loss of civil rights with the concerns of dictators isn't really a productive approach.

If anything, it dismisses and further polarizes people.

[dragonwriter]

If you replace “civil rights and democracy” with “arbitrary power” (and, as far as what both those cheering and those complaining mostly said, “Facebook” with “Twitter”), sure.

What's your point?