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Sorry but I see this take often and honestly think it’s so stupid. American companies have had tons of data on you your whole life and the worst thing that’s happened is targeted ads. If China became a real geopolitical enemy, oh boy
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US Politics 2w
I would rather china have my data instead of the US
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Anonymous 2w

I’m struggling to comprehend how a grown adult can genuinely believe that China is better than the United States

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Anonymous 2w

“became”

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Anonymous 2w

Like especially considering the Chinese government frequently sponsors cyberattacks on American infrastructure, I don’t know what makes people think they’d never use your personal data in evil ways. In fact, they’re probably stealing TONS of your data without you even using their platforms and you don’t even know about it. Let’s not pretend China is some benevolent state even when compared to some of the uglier US companies

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Anonymous 2w

Hey…I made the post. Didn’t read the comments really. I do think China is better than the US.

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Anonymous 2w

China is less dangerous than the US

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

Because they’ve never discussed starting a war over Taiwan right

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

Even though we are worse than we were a few years ago, they still have millions in work camps and a lower class living in horrible conditions

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 2w

So do we they're called prisons and now we have concentration camps for brown people

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

Fair enough, but it’s still not accurate to say we are worse than

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

I just don’t know in what world you think a potential foreign adversary is safer to hand your personal data than American companies. I’m not a big fan at all of where the US is trending in terms of surveillance but that kind of stuff is already the norm in China. They use technology in arguably much more evil ways on their own citizens than the US does, imagine what they’d do to you

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

You have a bad case of china derangement syndrome

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

Why does China have a bunch of insanely sophisticated espionage agents in the United States and why are groups backed by the Chinese government frequently carrying out extremely advanced cyberattacks on American infrastructure? Why did Salt Typhoon hack into almost every major US telecom company to essentially wiretap every American’s phone calls and Internet traffic? You’re acting like I’ve got a tinfoil hat on but this shit really happens, and all the time too

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

And realistically the US probably does shit like this too, but I at least have a couple decades of experience with that to know they’re at least not ruining my life with it. It just seems nefarious for a foreign government to be sponsoring that kind of stuff and I feel pretty uncomfortable thinking about the things they could do with it

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

Do people forget that China is also committing a genocide against ethnic minorities? Not to mention illegally occupying native territory and threatening war with pretty much everyone around them

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

My point is that they already are a geopolitical enemy lol

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