All countries are attempting to spy on each other. Of course they are. If you expect your country not to because of some misguided belief that this would make them a "good guy" you're just asking for your country to be weaker than others.
It's not cognitive dissonance. That's like saying, "Gee you don't like when the other team scores a goal, but you sure are happy when your team does it!"
Not quite. More like you prefer it if your father scores with your wife than the neighbor, because his interest is more aligned with yours...
Of course a manipulated device isn't ideal, but if it's one where I at least have some say in the government and that can in a lot of cases be trusted to respect human rights that's better.
I mean are you actually asking if it's better to be ruled by the US government than the Chinese government? It is possible to go see for yourself.
I pay taxes to my government so that they build infrastructure, run public services, etc. Foreign governments normally don't do anything for me, so I don't pay them taxes (unless I'm travelling or doing business abroad, etc)
I can think of no scenario where it would be acceptable that my government intercepts and manipulates a device that I ordered. If they would do that, I would protest and complain loudly.
Also, I'm not "ruled" by my government. The government provides services and creates laws for the people. I don't live in a dictatorship.
There is a select amount of cognitive dissonance required to support domestic implants in our hardware then call out the Americans when they do the exact same thing
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There is a select amount of cognitive dissonance required to support domestic implants in our hardware then call out the chinese when they do the exact same thing.