[ed25519FUUU]

Their usage of wechat is more likely a liability than a benefit. It gives a foreign adversary visibility into their activities in US. How can they become activist or work for change if their government is monitoring everything they say?

Do the Hong Kong protest crackdown not scare anyone else?

Now they have an excuse. It won’t look suspicious if they communicate to each other on channels that can’t be monitored by their oppressive government.

[newen]

Why are you assuming an average Chinese citizen would want to be an activist or work for change? Most likely they have positive views of their government just like the average American citizen.

[valuearb]

Your arguments is the NSA should monitor them, just as it does us?

[buzzerbetrayed]

How did you gather that from their comment?

[ed25519FUUU]

Will the NSA make HK protesters disappear?

There’s great alternatives to wechat that are secure by design, rather than spy-by-design, such as telegram or signal.

[valuearb]

That should be for the users to decide. My point is whatever they choose is likely going to be government monitored.

And the US has done hundred of renditions without trial, so while far from the scale of China, US spy agencies still do some awful things.

[unishark]

> My point is whatever they choose is likely going to be government monitored.

And _their_ point, which came first and you came here to argue against, is CCP monitoring is especially bad for particular political reasons.

[valuearb]

I’m fine with the CCP monitoring cat videos.