excerpting/compressing:
So, the question should be : apart from the anglo-americans, and perhaps the chinese, is there any other cyber police state out there?
russia, of course. and ...
perhaps the question you need to ask is who isn't a cyber police state?
even the third world is buying tools from the first for this purpose...
In a socialist nation, the government will own the critical infrastructure, and that is that. In a state capitalist nation, the government will own the critical infrastructure through straws. In a capitalist nation, the private sector will own the critical infrastructure. Therefore, the government of same will simply and quietly deputize the private sector against its will. Above some threshold level of deputization plus regulation, free-enterprise capitalist and state capitalist are operationally indistinguishable. By that analysis, the U.S. and China are destined to look more alike day by day. --dan