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I get that it's just a meme but please do mention it is faked in the description or comments.
It's funny to see people view the "Taiwan is a part of China" as insidious government brainwashing. But they don't see relentless fabrications about a Chinese software as insidious government brainwashing.
Oh they're probably right that it's not safe to leave your data with Chinese corporations/government.
The real brainwashing is "you can trust US corporations with it instead!"
They'd have never had any issue with Chinese software if they agreed to share all their data with the US...
What does this have to do with trying to get a piece of Chinese software to say "Taiwan is independent"? Is this phrase pivotal to your data security somehow?
Its tiresome to see people so cavalier with their data security suddenly express intense (often entirely impotent) anxiety over Evil Foreign Country getting at their data. I don't even think its fair to say "US corporations" are where the brainwashing enters in, so much as this shock doctrine of national news that tells you to install some malware dressed up as antivirus tech to protect your Macbook from "hackers", right after Colonial Pipeline gets hit with ransomware.
I'm reminded of people claiming Stuxnet Virus was an Iranian computer attack on the US, after the Obama Admin - in collaboration with Israel - deployed the virus to shut down Iranian centrifuges running outdated versions of Microsoft Windows without considering the possibility of blowback.
The degree to which the US is regularly targeted from within the Five Eyes network cannot be overstated.