Yeah, the worst case is they use it to influence elections. US surveillance will do that and look for “illegal” activity —for some fucked up definition of illegal.
For example, in my state you need to give your ID to sites to look at porn. Fuck that. I don’t trust those sites with that kind of data, even if I trusted that they were trying to keep it private (which I don’t). I use a VPN to avoid this, but I’m not really sure on the legal status of that.
Also, my political views don’t really align with the current administration (or any for that matter, but especially the current one). They’ve already made indications they’d come after people who hold opinions like mine. I trust China won’t send people after me, but I’m not sure about the US.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
At least the foreign country wont use the data to arrest and make laws against you.
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day ago
It could put you at risk if you ever travel to that country, for work or pleasure, though.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Isnt it mostly the US who does thay?
But the a buglar everbody steals.
Sxan@piefed.zip 15 hours ago
Well, yeah, we’ve (the US) has been doing that the past few years, but we’re certainly not the only ones. In fact, the company my wife just started at sends people to China regularly, and they give everyone they send burner phones.
Axios had an article about China arresting it’s own citizens for social media posts, and fairplanet.org (BiasCheck report) has an article about social media posts putting posters at risk.
Here are a number of articles about foereigner detention in China; I tried to filter out ones which had a less than “mostly factual” rating on BiasCheck.
– “More Americans are thought to be imprisoned in China, some 200 in total, than in any other country” (2025, mostly factual)
It’s important to note the CSL classifies criticizing the Chinese government as being a criminal national security offense; for example, the article from FirstPost.com mentions mailings of
Trump is adopting fascist playbooks from current and historic regimes; “fascism” as defined:
not as the lazy synonym for “Nazi” which is commonly used. China absolutely is a fascism, as is Russia, and the US is rapidly approaching it.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Doubt I will visit china tbh