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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (31 children)

I'm not a lemmygrad user. I'm simply stating facts?

There's literally many recent news articles of Canadians getting in legal trouble from American companies because of the things they posted or things they downloaded.

The Canadian government isn't handing me over to China or allowing China to come get me.

My comment is not even pro China. I'm just saying that nothing I say or do will allow China to put me in jail. Can't say the same about America.

You should learn to read. I would prefer no one get my data, but it's statistically safer for me for China to get it over an American company. However, no one should get it. Fuck shit American companies, fuck shit Chinese companies.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (10 children)

This is actually what I wanted to say to a lot of people. During peace times, allowing a foreign adversary stealing your data is a lot less damaging to your personal freedoms than your own government stealing your data. We need to be wary every time when our own government tries to tries to introduces surveillance laws under the disguise of "national security".

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Peace time?! China is waging a cold war against Western democracies!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

so war hasn't broken out, what's your point? Last time I checked China still isn't able to send agents to my house to arrest me, but folks here are getting misreported for CSAM to the feds by google scanning their pictures without consent.

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