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Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive citizens are but by how it treats its dissidents, those posing authentic challenges to what the government does.

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Glenn Greenwald
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 6
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