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Um, obviously? You seem to have missed the point. People ought to be most interested in the final outcome of each example.

• notahacker 1y ago
  Yeah. However wild some of the "America is the land of the free, China is a hellhole" takes are, there is a difference between a tracking system designed to try to sell you holidays and a tracking system used to identify political dissidents.
  • swed420 1y ago
    > there is a difference between a tracking system designed to try to sell you holidays and a tracking system used to identify political dissidents I have a feeling this assumption will age poorly.
    • GlitchRider47 1y ago
      Why? People are openly dissident in the US.
      • swed420 1y ago
        On the HN front page today: U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524749 History tells us it won't stop here.
        • GlitchRider47 1y ago
          Background checks on visa applicants is a farcry from digital surveillance to identify political dissidents. Although, I would agree with the notion that the US government has been increasingly becoming a surveillance state, but not nearly as pervasive as China.