[lost_tourist]

Both are bad, the French aren't currently forcibly sterilizing, enslaving, and genociding a culture like the Chinese are doing with Uyghers, however. So there are different levels of bad.

[dredmorbius]

Not since the 1960s, at any rate.

(The legacy of colonialism in many larger European countries is ... pretty dark. France, Belgium, UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal, ...)

[Animatronio]

You are right, what's a little surveillance between friends. It's not like they're acting like the Chinese at all.