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The difference in political climate matters because the public has the ability to vote in a party that will roll back the Investigatory Powers act, if it was something they cared about. The difference in cultural climate matters because Russian citizens are used to authoritarianism whilst British citizens tend to balk. And the "current weather" is so far apart that your comparison is absurd. Compare their press freedom indexes, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index#Rank...