How the Chinese government having my (Westerner's in a NATO country) data is any worse than Western (and thus subpoenable by the Western governments) corporations having it?

[–] Bristle1744@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Cause somebody is selling the Chinese king false dreams of invading America. And maybe having documents on every American citizen would be helpful post invasion.

Source: anonymous internet poster

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Then they're wasting their efforts because I'm not an American citizen (thank gods)

[–] Bristle1744@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago

You're on the same "Risk Board game" like the rest of us. If you're not in the American sphere of influence then NSA is just taking all your metadata the harder way.