alt Hacker News> You're thinking Chinese surveillance
the big irony, of course, is that i'm much more comfortable with China surveilling me than the US, since the latter can throw me in jail, seize my assets, and ruin my family's life, while the former cannot.
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stronglikedan • yesterday at 7:16 PM
why would the former bother, when all they have to do is take you to one of their secret police stations in the US and disappear you?
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afavour • yesterday at 6:58 PM
The US government is a democracy and can be replaced should it exceed people’s limits. The CCP… uh, not so much.
I’m not trying to say the US government is faultless but it amazes me how often I see this kind of anti-democratic institition sentiment.
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The CCP can hijack your accounts and absolutely do all of those things, using your own government.