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by pbhjpbhj 2505 days ago
More threatening to you perhaps, I'm assuming you're from USA.

USA government seem willing to use its tech sector to achieve political ends too, case in point being the interference President Trump has made in European companies in trying to win contacts for 5G by smearing Chinese companies.

In USA everything appears to serve a capitalist elite.

As, IIRC, Jerome K Jerome said "under capitalism man exploits man, under communism it's the other way around".

Under these specific instances of Western Capitalism and State Controlled Economy they seem rather close to being the same thing: a system in which an elite cadre immorally exploit the rest of society.