We Chat, They Watch

Re:We Chat, They Watch by elefanten on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:23PM (#23110746)

To your question: Relative transparency and relative accountability of the governments in question.

But your question is by nature setting up a false comparison. There is no observed censorship apparatus in place in the US. You can always pose "what if" scenarios about super classified efforts, but functionally there is no active system in place.

Compare this to the vastly-resourced, all-encompassing one operated openly and enthusiastically by the CCP.

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Re:We Chat, They Watch by boomlinde on Friday May 08, 2020 @09:47AM (#23114808)

Short of absolute transparency and absolute accountability, you can only be relatively certain, i.e. not certain.

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Re:We Chat, They Watch by ivalm on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:33PM (#23127654)

But not all “not certain” are created equal. After all, if you apply a sufficiently strong threshold nothing is certain.

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