Comment by will_wheat_on

You realise that’s how the rest of the world views the US? The US spies on the rest of the world; Cisco etc install back doors. The US was spying on Angela Merkel. For the emerging world, this is good, there’s finally a counterbalance to the NSA and US tech companies mass surveillance. The US isn’t the world’s largest economy anymore (PPP adjusted, soon to be in nominal terms as well.) so this idea that the rules of the game don’t apply to the US is past it’s sell by date. To someone with privilege, equality seems like oppression.