> How does it get to this point? I live in a country with a fairly corrupt government with a free media(South Africa) and most people rank corruption as the biggest problem facing SA after crime.
(I'm speaking from an Arabic background)
The cost of speaking up is too High, you know what happens when someone speaks up, and its not worth it.
Nothing will change, and your life will be ruined, and your family will be affected too.
In my experience(not Russian), people talk about the goverments action privately and with trusted relatives, just don't expect any action because no body is going to risk it.
> But for the general population to really not care about censorship,war&corrupt government, surely these are basic values we take for granted as humans? &So long as we have encryption, tor & VPNs at our disposal, citizens of all nations can transcend the self serving narrative pushed by governments.
A lot of people can see what happens when you speak against the government, and what happened in other nations when the people rose up, it ends up in a civil war or a never ending cycle of corruption.
They see they have food, they have a good or acceptable life, they have electricity.
That's enough, and its not worth it to risk dying in prison for speaking against the government.
Its mostly happens when people have nothing to lose.
And dont dismiss that a lot of people support the government, they see the positives, see change, and just simply ignore the bad things, for them rising against the government is how you end up in a destroyed country.