[mindslight]

Government and commercial surveillance are intrinsically linked and framing them as some dichotomy is essentially just a coping mechanism. It's quite plausible that someone in a category that is openly accepted in the western world ends up traveling to a country where that category has been criminalized, and then ends up in the sights of the authorities based off surveillance records/analysis bought from consumer surveillance companies in the western world.

[nine_k]

Fair enough. The difference is mostly how much the government limits commercial surveillance (eg in EU) or integrates / buys it as part of its own surveillance (not only China or Russia, but also many Western countries to a limited extent).