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I'm European and I definitely feel that way. I don't like American spyware, but I trust the Chinese government much less than I do American corporations.
Remind me again who was wiretapping Merkel's cell phone? China right? Oh wait no sorry, it was the USA.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-german-chancellery-decades-wikileaks-claims-merkel
How about I share something from my own country. What I reckon is that only some of my data goes to the US government through Google, Microsoft etc. while the Chinese government controls corporations like tencent much more than the US government controls US corporations. Besides all that, services from Microsoft and Google are much harder to avoid than for example tiktok and Huawei. So the US is getting my data no matter what, I might as well limit how much of it goes to china.
In the US it is the big corporations that control the government.
welcome traveller from an alternate universe where Snowden leaks didn't happen 😂