I'm always fascinated by the people who think their Huawei phone is going to put them into some sort of Chinese extraordinary rendition database when we literally have powerpoint slides from the NSA which demonstrate they've been doing this in collaboration with every major US technology firm for 20 years.
If we were to accept the worldview of these people - that the US is a liberal democratic utopia and China is fascist - I'd still rather be spied on by the guys way over there than the people who could cut my break lines in the middle of the night.
I'm always fascinated by the people who think their Huawei phone is going to put them into some sort of Chinese extraordinary rendition database when we literally have powerpoint slides from the NSA which demonstrate they've been doing this in collaboration with every major US technology firm for 20 years.
If we were to accept the worldview of these people - that the US is a liberal democratic utopia and China is fascist - I'd still rather be spied on by the guys way over there than the people who could cut my break lines in the middle of the night.
Just last week there was a story about Google flagging certain search terms for the cops!
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At which point the feds find other ways to collect the data anyway.