[robotomir]

Do you think that monitoring and surveillance are less of a problem in the US? In China?

[stackedinserter]

There's still more freedom (like, real, everyday freedom, not just abstract "rights") in US than in EU.

[jraph]

Come on, we don't need to race to the bottom :-)

(Note, I'm not vouching for the comment you replied to - EU is not even close/comparable to what peak USSR was)