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This is the same tired argument that's dragged out anytime people raise concerns about using Chinese hardware. >I don't care if the Chinese government has my d
by prions 8y ago
This is the same tired argument that's dragged out anytime people raise concerns about using Chinese hardware.
>I don't care if the Chinese government has my data, I'm not a Chinese citizen
>The US spies as well
>The US did something wrong in the last 100 years, therefore you shouldn't complain that China did it last week
- pluma 8y agoNo, the question is this: The US is doing certain things that seem outrageous. The US is supposedly an ally of my country. China is not explicitly an ally (just a trade partner). So if the US spies on us, that's scandalous but it significantly lowers the bar for what I expect our non-allies to do to us. It's not whataboutism, it's a precedent by which all future actions are measured. I'm not discounting the news story, I'm asking whether this is just a news story that will be forgotten about in a few weeks or so, or whether this is a total shift in expectations like when we found out what the US was doing to its own allies.