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Some percentage are mixed in with the government pretty tightly, though, and the ones who aren't can effectively be assumed to pass any kind of data to them, or
by meowface 7y ago
Some percentage are mixed in with the government pretty tightly, though, and the ones who aren't can effectively be assumed to pass any kind of data to them, or be forced to do their bidding if the occasion ever arises. That's true in the US, too, of course, but at least in the US the companies can (secretly) fight it out in court, and actually sometimes win.
- rayiner 7y ago> That's true in the US, too, of course, Do people really believe still this, or is this something everyone says reflexively to avoid committing the faux pas of coming across as believing that the U.S. is better than a communist country? Trump should have exploded this idea. He can't even get his own executive bureaucracy, which he is theoretically in charge of, to do his bidding, much less random U.S. companies.
- pardavis 7y agoFalse equation. It is silly to compare the operation of the entire US government to a small special ops team from a 3-letter agency using a small special ops court to compel a small special ops team within a corporation to do something. The teams that do that kind of thing are very intentionally separate from the bureaucracy.
- meowface 7y agoOf course the situation is far, far worse in China than in the US, but look at some of the recent-ish litigation involving corporations and the NSA and FBI to see what I mean. Who the current president is has little to do with it. If I hadn't added that, I would've received the opposite comment about American bias towards China.