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by blocked_again 1405 days ago
Simple question. Who do you trust your data with?

1. A company in your own country which got marketshare mostly because of legal reasons and government interference.

2. A company which got marketshare by building products that people loved all over the world, has the smartest people working for them and have generated more value than the vast majority of the companies that existed previously in the world combined.

2 comments

I'd agree with the implication here, if it weren't for the fact that the company on #2 would be _legally compelled to spy on me or my countrymen at the whim of 3 letter agencies_.

That rubs some people, such as I, the wrong way. I wonder why :)

1. A foreign government with a tendency to imprison and torture foreign citizens without any process.

2. Your own government that is held accountable to local laws.