&gt; Because here ofcourse the government has the ability to look at everyone&#x27;s communication<p>Maybe that&#x27;s the thing: in China, everybody expects the government to watch everything. People were born in this society, it is normal to us. In the US, people believed the government wasn&#x27;t invading their privacy, Snowden&#x27;s revelations is new information to them (I&#x27;m talking about the majority of course).