I was implying you are British, sorry for my mistake. It seemed like a macho British thing to do to try to deflect attention from this latest scandal by saying that the US is worse. (the UK is much worse).
My guess is that the UK is much worse than America based on their track record, history and handing of the Guardian documents. I don't live there or follow their politics as closely, so I don't have a list compiled for them.
It should also be said that there are many other countries that assuredly ARE worse than America with regard to the treatment of journalists. I have never been interested in 'lesser of two evil' false dilemmas, and don't find such comparisons very informative or important, but it should be said to make clear (if it was not) that this indictment of the Americas is similarly not a comparison with the British, with Egypt, with Belarus or anywhere else.
I would be very interested to see heavily sourced lists like this for modern day Britian (or essentially anywhere else).
The various accounts are a bit flippant of me. I tend to accumulate downvote brigades. After some time I'll notice that immediately after I post something (as in under 20 seconds) it will be downvoted several times or if a post has two digit 'karma' I will come back after some time with significantly less (though usually no new comments/discussion). In addition sometimes an account will "act oddly" - like refuse to update comments even when it is witnin the correction window or my HN tab in Chrome will be subject to regular crashes, requiring me to edit comments elsewhere and post them into HN for fear of losing edits.
Real or perceived, so far rotating accounts has seemed to deal with it fairly well. I also don't link credentials across machines (well, I try) - so you sometimes see two accounts active during the same week (never simultaneously posting however).
I've been thinking a lot about this rotation policy (solving the problem another way). Dunno.
So far as I know nobody has ever tried impersonating one.
What reason do you have for saying that the UK is much worse? The particular actions described in the article are not obviously things which the NSA would never do or hasn't done.
I don't really get your comment. It sounds important, could you say it again another way?