The NSA has admitted that Snowden tried to go through channels to report massive surveillance. However, officials systematically quash such attempts to raise an issue. The surveillance state created a Kafkaesque blindness to systematic violation of the Constitution and human rights.

Saudi Arabia has imposed total censorship and repression, labeling any sort of dissent as "terrorism".

The US and the UK are moving along the same path, but have not gone so far.

Jordan is censoring web journalism by imposing licensing of web sites and making sites responsible for readers' comments.

Obama and the EU seem to have given their blessing to this repression.

China's annual repression of anything that alludes to the Tiananmen Square massacre of students is especially harsh and broad this year.

Everyone: call on Facebook not to listen to sound through the used's computer's microphone.