Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Because it can no longer affect real change.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So it can in China?
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I didn’t say it couldn’t in China. I said it happens just the same in America.