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Re:Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snow... by rakoo on Thursday April 28, 2016 @05:34AM (#11587483)
> Because here ofcourse the government has the ability to look at everyone's communication

Maybe that's the thing: in China, everybody expects the government to watch everything. People were born in this society, it is normal to us. In the US, people believed the government wasn't invading their privacy, Snowden's revelations is new information to them (I'm talking about the majority of course).

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Re:Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snow... by optforfon on Thursday April 28, 2016 @05:39AM (#11587503)
Yeah, just like people before Google Maps thought it was weird to have photos of everything - and now it's totally okay.

From my limited experience it's also true for Singapore and Japan - so I'm inclined to believer there is an East Asian cultural element to it. When I tried to explain to some Japanese colleagues that a lot of Americas believe we should have the right to have firearms so that people have a mechanism to overthrow the government they looked at me like I was insane (b/c why the hell would you want to overthrow the government? Are you a psycho?!)

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