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Re:U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, includ... by jeswin on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @03:00AM (#23756482)
> You might fairly ask whether or not it is equally foolish for non-US countries to use US services. I think that is also a reasonable question, and deserves reflection.

It's a fair sentiment (and held by others as well on this thread), but IMHO there's no equivalence. In democracies, violence against their own people (or others) will invite opposition from their citizens - while in China people won't even know what's going on.

The consequences are stark - just last week 7 million people lost the liberties they enjoyed. What's a comparable loss due to US snooping?

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Re:U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, includ... by ketzu on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @03:50AM (#23756711)
> What's a comparable loss due to US snooping?

The list of interventions in foreign countries by the US is very very long ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_U... ), although not all of them are unwelcome or unwarranted. So is the list of people killed by the US. According to their own words "We Kill People Based on Metadata". (e.g., https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/ex-nsa-chief-... )

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Re:U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, includ... by eirini1 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @04:14AM (#23756858)
The US installed a dictatorship in my country in the 70s. China hasn't done anything of the sort, except ship me cheap stuff through aliexpress. I know who I would choose as my designated data thief if I had to choose between the US stealing my data and China stealing my data.
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