[type0]

> I use an iPhone, iMessage, Gmail, Google, Google Docs, etc. I'm interested in understanding why people who do practice this feel so strongly that using these products and services is bad.

You mean services from American conglomerates, why don't you use Huawei, Yandex, WeChat, etc?

[skinnymuch]

Probably because they are in America. What you’re trying to insinuate is not correct.

[computmaxer]

Quite simply because I am an American living in the US and those are the most accessible to me and the people I communicate with regularly.