All that doesn&#x27;t count because the government doesn&#x27;t physically attack your house with with black helicopters if you make a freedom blog (that nobody reads).<p>Often I feel that we in the west have our own &quot;whatabout-ism&quot; when it comes to these issues. To those, I want to ask, if you wanted to enact fascistic surveillance and control over western society, how would you go about it differently from what we have today?<p>Would you really want to bring attention to yourself by being loud and violent, like we seem to expect &quot;real&quot; evil governments are? Or would you just do it secretly, mix it up with other issues like child pornography, terrorism and piracy, and just paint the alarmists as overreacting?