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while understandable, if i was american i might actually prefer surveillance by foreign country. At least if i was part of group in danger like lqbt.
For me it will depend on what that foriegn country is, how it is governed, its cultural norms, things like that.
I don't have more trust in Chinese government than I do American.
How about some real privacy rights instead of making me choose my surveillers.
Yeah, the worst case is they use it to influence elections. US surveillance will do that and look for "illegal" activity —for some fucked up definition of illegal.
For example, in my state you need to give your ID to sites to look at porn. Fuck that. I don't trust those sites with that kind of data, even if I trusted that they were trying to keep it private (which I don't). I use a VPN to avoid this, but I'm not really sure on the legal status of that.
Also, my political views don't really align with the current administration (or any for that matter, but especially the current one). They've already made indications they'd come after people who hold opinions like mine. I trust China won't send people after me, but I'm not sure about the US.
It's kinda like my google ethos, Google are already spying on me, I might as well use their phone and then Samsung aren't spying on me as well.