[tokinonagare]

> It blows my mind that people don't see where this is going after Snowden.

The majority may actually approves it, instead of turning a blind eye. During the covid crisis, how much of the population was ok with the government (taking France as example here) excluding from social life, and in some case professional life, 10% of people, on the ground of them not pumping Pfizer et al. stock price? I bet on something like 70%. Those people think because there are in the "winner" side they'll always stay there, and don't realize how fast the wind turns, and the same method will apply to them soon for whatever reason.

[collyw]

I don't think the majority approves of it at all. Most were just to weak to speak out. There were massive protests in many cities, but this was not reported at all by the mainstream media. Meanwhile in the UK they reported on a handful of eco protestors gluing themselves to the road. Subsequently the government used that as justification for bringing in more anti-protest laws.

Similar with Johhny Depp and Amber Herd trial being heavily publicized, while they were silent on the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. Whoever said that the mainstream media are the enemy of the people are correct.