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S/he is not saying all governments are equal in all respects. As far as we know only the Chinese, Russians and the 5-Eyes have the technical capacity to monitor
by frabbit 6y ago
S/he is not saying all governments are equal in all respects. As far as we know only the Chinese, Russians and the 5-Eyes have the technical capacity to monitor us all and have been caught out doing it.
So yes, you are correct: not all governments are equal, but the US and Chinese are similar in their practical totalitarian capacities.
- IAmWorried 6y agoIn the US system you are free to criticize the government. In the Chinese and Russian systems you are not. That alone tells me all I need to know about who I want scooping up my data.
- frabbit 6y agoFreedom from surveillance facilitates criticism of the government. Do away with that and you end up with something like Russia or China.
- YarickR2 6y agoHave you tried to criticize government in Russia ? Have you tried to criticize it in the US ? If not , then how could you compare these cases ?
- coronadisaster 6y agobut being in the US, I don't really care if a foreign government looks at my social media (what are they going to do?)
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoNo, saying "governments monitor all major companies" can be an easy dismissal of any privacy concern. Governments are just human organizations. They have different levels of rapaciousness, resources, skills, corruption... Even if they were all the same, it does not makes it acceptable. Equally, software and services can have excellent security or be terrible.