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Re:China Telecom diverted internet traffic in U.S. and Canad... by prions on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:16PM (#18346982)
This is the same tired argument that's dragged out anytime people raise concerns about using Chinese hardware.

>I don't care if the Chinese government has my data, I'm not a Chinese citizen

>The US spies as well

>The US did something wrong in the last 100 years, therefore you shouldn't complain that China did it last week

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Re:China Telecom diverted internet traffic in U.S. and Canad... by pluma on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:55AM (#18362614)
No, the question is this:

The US is doing certain things that seem outrageous.

The US is supposedly an ally of my country.

China is not explicitly an ally (just a trade partner).

So if the US spies on us, that's scandalous but it significantly lowers the bar for what I expect our non-allies to do to us.

It's not whataboutism, it's a precedent by which all future actions are measured. I'm not discounting the news story, I'm asking whether this is just a news story that will be forgotten about in a few weeks or so, or whether this is a total shift in expectations like when we found out what the US was doing to its own allies.

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