Deletion of Surveillance and Incarceration in the U.S., Russia, and China

Comment: as . Arbitrary set of countries. Even the title given to the first citation is misleading "Privacy International Ranks U.S., Russia, and China as Worst Surveillance Countries" - that web page correctly says that the US, UK, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Russia, China and Malaysia are assigned in the Privacy International list to the worst category. The Privacy International document http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/rankings2007/phrcomp_sort.pdf actually ranks Russia, China and Malaysia as worst (with 1.3 points each). UK and Singapore get 1.4 points. The US comes equal sixth worst with Thailand and Taiwan (and 1.5 points
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Comment: Indiscriminate as there's no particular reason for lumping these countries together, uses Wikipedias a |soapbox
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Comment: folks, the fact that these three countries might have poor incarceration and/or surveillance records might be true, and there are likely sources to support such a claim. but this article purports to make some kind of connection/correlation between the three, which is not supported by any sources provided. No problem having an article for each case, and probably ok to expand more appropriate articles like List of countries by incarceration rate, but ''this article'' is an arbitrary highlighting of three countries, with nothing binding them together other than the author's |own analysis/opinion
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