[goldfeld]

You say that as if the US plans the same freedoms given to it's citizens extended to regimes it disagrees with. You can watch everything freely because there's no antagonistic hugely powerful and apt state effectively able to spy on all US citizens and take undercover measures to destabilize the US. I'm not saying I agree with this or that regime, but to me it's clear that the US can be very liberal because it doesn't feel threatened technologically.