alt Hacker News> However, the new company could say "turn on microphone for all vacuums in the DC area and send transcripts to us"
The old company could have done the same thing. I recognize that China is a u.s. geopolitical adversary, but when it comes to politics domestic adversaries are just as ruthless.
The old company wasn't a domestic political adversary; it was a capitalist corporation.
I'm not making moral comparisons; I'm just saying that the motivations of the PRRC and Coca-Cola are different.