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Under the ironically-named USA Freedom Act, the US government has essentially the same powers. My country doesn't have an extradition treaty with China, but it does have one with the US. There's no evidence that citizens of my country have ever been disappeared by China and taken to secret prisons, but there's documentary evidence that the US have done exactly that.

I'm genuinely trying to think of a good-faith argument for why Chinese tech firms are less trustworthy than American tech firms, but I honestly can't think of one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

parent jdietrich 3 years ago

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