<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Agreed. Thanks for sharing. <div><br></div><div>Of course, there are two big differences between the Chinese services and their American counterparts: </div><div><ul><li>In a communist system, business is an extension of government, whereas in the U.S. representative democratic system it is not; and,</li><li>As bullet point #1 alludes, China is undemocratic (to say the least), and the U.S. is a representative democracy.</li></ul></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 11:20 AM Marc Sunet <<a href="mailto:msunet@shellblade.net">msunet@shellblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>The same can be said of American Big Tech and a large chunk of
      the surface Web though :)</p>
    <p>For a more detailed look at how the Chinese government embeds its
      surveillance in popular Chinese services, this analysis of WeChat
      from Citizenlab is pretty extensive:<br>
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    <p><a href="https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/" target="_blank">https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/</a><br>
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    <div>On 6/27/20 10:33 AM, Yosem Companys
      wrote:<br>
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