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mkhaytman on Dec 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google to close engineering office in Russia

There's really no need for the comparisons. Both versions are terrible, who cares which is worse. How we go about fixing it should be the topic of discussion.

melling on Dec 12, 2014 | [–]

No, one is clearly much worse than the other. Many journalists have been killed in Russia, for example.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in...

I imagine if a Russian version of Snowden ever occurred, he wouldn't remain alive to continue leaking documents.

happyscrappy on Dec 12, 2014 | [–]

So the West and Russia are equally bad? Who cares which is worse? The people who live there.

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