[Balding_Eagle]

as the government was pushing through a slew of new laws to strengthen its control over the Internet, which President Vladimir Putin

And this differs from the US in which significant way?

[Olog-hai]

Is that question posed in terms of justification of such actions, or in terms of “look which way the US is headed”?

[FreeReign]

And this differs from the US in which significant way?

So then Obama = Putin.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Heck of a new home you found for yourself there, Snowden buddy.