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Re:Patriot Act on steroids: anti-TikTok Trojan horse for cen... by max51 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:20AM (#35341547)
The difference is that unlike an FBI agent, you can just tell them to fuck off if you are not a chinese citizen.

They only have power over chinese people because of their families back in China and their chinese citizenship that they may not want to lose.

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Re:Patriot Act on steroids: anti-TikTok Trojan horse for cen... by 411111111111111 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:41AM (#35342868)
They don't have legal power.

The reports mentioned that multiple people vanished after getting dragged into their offices, even with video evidence. That makes your point kinda moot in my opinion.

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Re:Patriot Act on steroids: anti-TikTok Trojan horse for cen... by arthur2e5 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:03PM (#35375852)
Telling them to fuck off did not work with Gui Minhai, who was a Swedish citizen at the time. If you're in some way Chinese they can just do the dragging first and make you say the "I wanted to come home" line later.
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