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it’s not safe to leave your data with Chinese corporations/government

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?

The real brainwashing is “you can trust US corporations with it instead!”

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US, after the Obama Admin - in collaboration with Israel - deployed the virus to shut down Iranian centrifuges running outdated versions of Microsoft Windows without considering the possibility of blowback.

They’d have never had any issue with Chinese software if they agreed to share all their data with the US…

The degree to which the US is regularly targeted from within the Five Eyes network cannot be overstated.