My friends visiting Japan from the states literally did not bring phones and wiped their social media so they could get back into America.
Totally normal country but in evil asian countries look out
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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So your argument is that because US does it, it's fine that China does it too?
My argument is that western media is nothing but 'china bad' while allowing meta, stellar wind, gawd I feel like that SpongeBob meme where he is pointing at literally all the things... what I am saying is that things need to be addressed domestically but the media says no look over there where you have literally no agency to change things instead of fixing the things here where you have, well, almost no power
So again, you are okay with China doing it, but not okay with US doing it? That's a bit hypocritical, no? I for one say fuck both for doing this.
There are many goods things about China, their total invasion of privacy is not one of them.
Yeah I don’t really understand people in this thread jumping to defend or whatabout. This isn’t good.
Reality in China is that you can’t expect privacy from the state. It’s especially true in that basically everything goes through WeChat, which the state have direct virtual access to, even without your device.
On the other hand, it’s unlikely for the state ever to care about you if you’re just a normal person. Also, they do legitimately seem to care about protecting data from private companies, which is a silver lining at the very least.
China isn't going to traffick me to a concentration camp prison in El Salvador if I have a particular photo of JD Vance on my phone
So that's your bar for tolerable invasion of privacy?
Also, that German wasn't sent to the concentration camp, but was threated with up to 5 years in the US jail if he did not provide the password to his phone. And then US lied about everything from claiming it was about the meme to claiming he was trying to emigrate instead of just visiting.
The malware, which must be planted on an unlocked device
So it's a backup tool
Surely Five Eyes countries would never do such a thing!