[potamic]

If you're making a case of this vs what the US has interfered with, it simply does not stack up. Of course it's naive to think they won't start interfering like the US once they gain the leverage, but to a neutral party it likely doesn't matter which of these two ends up as the superpower on the global stage.

[pell]

One, as bad as it is, has its biggest critics live and speak out freely. The other silences, imprisons or kills them.

[potamic]

With the butchering of the Correspondent's Dinner last week, it doesn't seem like things will be the way they were.

[jeltz]

Something which Trump wants to change. Trump has already done a lot of silence critical media and he wants to do more.