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Well you are talking about 2 different things.

Stalking: just following a person for your own personal benefit.

And Spying/Surveillance: following someone to share the information with another entity or government.

The person in question had several logs and such logs were communicated to the chinese government, they have proof of this, so such actions are criminal offenses.

But surveillance is illegal, especially in a targeted form. Let me put it like this, your address is public, as people can see when you get in and out of your house. But now someone goes and tells someone else, a criminal, your address with the intention to cause you damages. That person, the informant, becomes directly an accomplice, even if the person didn't do damage directly.

I will give it the benefit of the doubt. I just watched the trailers for GotG 1 and GotG 3, to compare them with this one and it is certainly less entertaining, but I still have hope, with reservations.

I 100% percent blame WB executives for meddling with director choices. Check it out: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ExecutiveMeddling/DCExtendedUniverse

"private citizen sending a message abroad about publicly available information on someone?"

That is actually a pretty nefarious thing because it is targeted, as in spying. That's what is not legal.

Just a quick search gave me this:

18 U.S.C. 2261A says, “Whoever (1) travels in interstate or foreign commerce or is present within the jurisdiction of the United States, with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, or place under surveillance, or intimidate another person, and in the course of, or as a result of, such travel or presence engages in conduct that (A) places that person in reasonable fear of the death of, or serious bodily injury to (i) that person; (ii) an immediate family member (iii) a spouse or intimate partner of that person….”

In this case, there is an intent to have repercussions. I was wondering as well why Private Investigators are allowed to do this and in short, they are regulated so they have to work within the frame of law and should have a lawful purpose.

Doesn't work like that, my guy. They were targeting Chinese descendants, which would make them american.

Also this:

US officials have warned for years of Chinese determination to influence American policy and cultivate relationships with political figures, but also act to pressure US-Chinese nationals domestically.

I know, right? I'm human like you and totally not a dog

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I mean surely it could be a lie but they just took away a PS5 from a kid...

Well, would you look at that, if it ain't the consequences of their own actions.

You are right in that there are people in worse situations as you describe and I hope you do donate to them however you can. But the person here affected has taken bad decisions and it is actively being legally attacked, this is a position I understand and can relate to so I have donated to him.

I'm replying to you as you have replied to this post as to express my own opinion and to say that although you are not wrong in your comment, it is a bad position to take and might be considered arrogant and presumptuous. May you never be in a position where you need to ask others for money.

Can't wait to see the Netflix adaptation again with Henry Cavill as Ciri.