Linking open technology to surveillance. 2700 words.

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@@ -194,7 +194,17 @@ agencies and counterterrorism forces. The tools of mass surveillance
 that once enabled investigation into crime or terror such as reading
 messages/emails, listening to calls, tracking location, or analysing
 metadata (cite?) may no longer be effective, thereby potentially
-preventing such investigation to occur.
+preventing such investigation to occur. For governments, this is
+arguably the result of such heavy surveillance in the first place.
+It's clear that knowledge such as the 2013 Snowden leaks had an impact
+on the public (cite), and that people are therby more interested in
+their privacy and preventing surveillance. The exception to this has
+been in China, where the government has unparalleled control over the
+flow of information over the internet. This has allowed the filtering
+of content, prevention from accessing sites, and the blocking of the
+anonymity network Tor which would allow users to circumvent measures
+put in place by the government {firewall} (cite for Tor). (research:
+would such measures even work in western world?)
 
 In addition, the rate of development in unconventional computing
 methods is increasing rapidly. Effective quantum computing will