Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event

Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by guilamu on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:00AM (#23486647)

I totally agree with you, there's a very high probability that the Chinese gov is recording everything.

But is that any better than being 100 % sure that the US gov is doing it?

I mean, what is the point of "the Chinese may be listening this is horrible!" when we know for a fact that the US are listening and most probably multiple european countries.

Nowadays, you must assume that whatever you do online is recorded by multiple states and may be used against you one day.

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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by ekianjo on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:15AM (#23486749)

I am more worried about dictatorships recording everything than other regimes. Does not excuse recording at all, just an appreciation of the level of risk.

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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by guilamu on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:16AM (#23487578)

Thanks for your reply, but I fail to see how a dictatorship would do worst things with these recordings than a democracy, say like the USA, UK or France, where intelligence services operate outside the law as Snowden (and many others) have shown over the last decade.

Also, I see that I'm being downvoted and I would be really interested to know why I'm wrong. I mean it, I love the level of discussion here and I really like constructive criticsm.

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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by ekianjo on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @08:45PM (#23546306)

Intelligence services may operate outside of the Law in pretty much all countries but the difference is that democracies typically have a Rule of Law as to how the data can be used against you. Not a perfect safeguard but way better than dictatorships where power has a blank check to do anything to you, anytime.

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