It's really hard to not chuckle when the US government condemns the Iranian crackdowns on 'online freedom' while themselves pushing for similar restrictions and threatening our freedom of speech.
After seeing this, I really don't think there's a difference anymore. Americans are starting to be treated the exact same way, despite the fact that the "freedom of speech" 1st Amendment is the strongest part of their Constitution:
Seeing how things are going, I predict there will be a real revolution within 2 years in US, especially if Ron Paul doesn't become president. I see him as the only hope to revert the whole trend back. He even predicted everything that's happening now back in 2002, with specific examples and within a 5-10 year time-frame:
Seeing how things are going, I predict there will be a real revolution within 2 years in US
I'm assuming you don't live in the US, since you refer to Americans in the third person.
This prediction of yours could not be more laughable. The people who actually care about issues such as these are a small minority. Most US citizens are content with privacy and freedoms curtailed in the name of "security". If not content, we're mostly unwilling to make a big stink about it.
There would have to be some vastly negative policy changes in the next couple years to incite revolution, and, even then, law enforcement and the military are far too strong and well-trained (and far too willing to take action against fellow citizens) for any kind of revolution to take hold and be successful without a level of organization that is likely beyond the citizenry.
Obviously a full-scale violent revolution isn't going to happen but I wonder if like-minded people moved to an area / city where they could re-invent the political system there, vote out the police chief (or city council members who appoint the police chief, however it works) and reform the local government to where no one there is willing to enforce the more egregious laws. It has already happened to an extent in California with medical marijuana so there is some precedent for a region (I say region because there is a divide in how its handled even within California itself) being able to make its own set of rules that conflict with mandates from the federal government, with some succcess.
Seeing how things are going, I predict there will be a real revolution within 2 years in US
Has there ever been a revolution over free speech or anything similar? It seems like the vast majority doesn't care at all. Can any revolution be attributed to something other than how much you can buy?
By the people for the people?