Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 days agoIf you do anything that threatens the powerful in the USA you will be cracked down on just as hard. Your example, Edward Snowden, or even the union wars in Appalachia. All are just as forgotten in US public mind as Tianman Square.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I still see Snowden in the news, and see the information of his documents discussed in mainstream media. Even if it was forgotten, people arern’t being swept away by the feds for talking about online, and on tv.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Because it can no longer affect real change.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 6 days ago
So it can in China?
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I didn’t say it couldn’t in China. I said it happens just the same in America.