thranx said:
If you think the US is the only one doing this? |
Depends on what you're talking about.
You're right that pretty much all governments would do the same that the US government is doing if they were capable to.
The US government is no better or worse than any other government in this respect. Noam Chomsky once said something like that in political speech, "security" means that governments are secure from the citizens, and there's a lot of truth to that. If other governments are not as worse as the US government, it is mainly because they don't have the same possibilities.
This thread for example is about "Microsoft working with the NSA". And in that case, I think it's safe to say that the US is indeed the only one doing this. Just like Google, Facebook, Apple etc., Microsoft is an american country, they have to obey to US laws, no matter how evil they may be. They most probably wouldn't cooperate with the US government if they weren't forced to.
