[lazyeye]

Who cares? Does China allow Facebook, Twitter etc within its own borders? Why not?

Is there anything unreasonable about treating China the same way it treats others?

[coldtea]

No, just the hypocrisy of "we're doing it out of privacy concerns"

[lazyeye]

Not at all.

Privacy concerns obviously become much more critical when an aggressive foreign power is involved and is likely to weaponise the data. Particularly a country like China that operates the most sophisticated control/surveillance systems in the world on its own citizens.