Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 6 days agoI 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.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Except you brought up the release of classified documents, not discussing something that happened out in the open, in front of the media. Tiananmen Square is not like Snowden leaking documents. What is more comparable is the Kent State massacre. However, that was immediately everywhere, and no one went to prison for reporting it. Where are you can still go to prison over publicly discussing Tiananmen today.
Is it bad that that whistle blowers, working government intelligence, are treated as criminals? Yes, yes it is. The fact that this is the whataboutism you jump to, for discussing Tiananmen Square, rather than Kent State, is telling though. You can’t match the reaction to the similar crime. You have to select a completely different government crime to have a similar reaction. Now tell me, how does China treat people who whistle blow government secrets?