Remember when the FBI tried to get Apple to cooperate in opening the phones of the San Bernadino attackers, and Apple wouldn't? The equivalent situation simply

Remember when the FBI tried to get Apple to cooperate in opening the phones of the San Bernadino attackers, and Apple wouldn't? The equivalent situation simply would not and has not happened in China. Instead Tencent and other vendors explicitly run mass surveillance and censorship on behalf of the Chinese government. The situation in the USA isn't perfect but it's far better than the situation in China. It really bothers me when people fail to make the distinction. And I'm not even American.