Greenwald’s too busy putting the finishing touches on a book tour. /

Well, not really sarcasm. He’s got a book coming out, so he’s too busy indicating outrageous outrage over US surveillance while ignoring even more invasive and authoritarian surveillance from Russia on their own citizens, taking away speech rights from Russians of all walks of life.

The direct effect of the Russian move is to limit criticism of the government - hitting at bloggers and journalists who don’t hew the official line of RT or other Russian mouthpieces.

The law will have a chilling effect on free speech, and is it a wonder that the authoritarians in the US are salivating over this very proposition (like Fischer).