[pessimizer]

The US has four times as many prisoners per capita as China, the "police state."

edit: some interesting trivia. Due to the combination of America's incarceration rate, a racist justice system, and a completely wealthless and desperate class of freed slaves who were never compensated (although their owners were), Black Americans are 0.5% of the world's population but 5% of the world's prison population.

[bit-anarchist]

Another piece of interesting trivia: PRC can legally confiscate and search your devices without warrant nor case.

[anepoitilivam]

Oh really?

Your american KGB knows nearly everything about me, as well as about any other person with internet access (and also those without), without any "warrants", "judges", etc

Never even imagined in Soviet Union.

You are the ultimate horror.

[bit-anarchist]

"my"? I'm not even american.

"american KGB"? pray tell, who would that be? FBI? NSA? ICE? Even with their tooling, they are still struggling to legally acquire information, and even more so to act on it. There's even considerations of abolishing these agencies.

Try suggesting the abolition of the MSS as a mainland Chinese national and see what happens.

[anepoitilivam]

"Fbi, nsa,.." - I dont care much about their acronyms or the organizational structure

"Still struggling to legally acquire information.."

I dont doubt for a single moment, and I dont think you should, that you are right there in their database, with your identity, psychological profile, and all the rest. Now whether it was acquired "legally" i dont know, but when they choose people to murder abroad, I dont think that matters much.

[bit-anarchist]

> I dont care much about their acronyms or the organizational structure

So I call bullshit on your argument.

> dont doubt for a single moment, and I dont think you should, that you are right there in their database, with your identity, psychological profile, and all the rest.

I do. Perhaps I am there. Perhaps I'm not. Perhaps my name is there, but the data is wrong and/or misleading. I'm not going to deny USA's alphabet boys abilities, but I'm not going to glaze them either.

Nor I'm going to ignore that I might also be on the PRC's databases as well. They might not bombing people yet, but foreign policy can change easily.

I'm simply going to do my best to protect my privacy, not pretend that either of these regimes wouldn't kill me if they find it convenient.

That said, it is undeniable that USA would have more issues pulling that off domestically, and, arguably, even internationally. PRC has an entire legal apparatus for doing this domestically.

[anepoitilivam]

Just because i call them collectively KGB - since the essence is precisely that - you "call bullshit on my argument"?

Though you are right I guess in what regards the legal apparatus of PRC.

But look, here in the free west my speech is suppressed without any need for "legal apparatus".. and it is not because I was provocative (though this is eventually what you become when your mouth is being consistently shut with a big fat lap).

As regards to your efforts to ptotect privacy, your identity can be deduced without much difficulty just from the sites you visit.. and Tor's origin you should know, and here I would stop.

[scarecrowbob]

"That said, it is undeniable that USA would have more issues pulling that off domestically, and, arguably, even internationally."

You think so?

I spend a lot of time working with (actual) anarchists in the US, and most of us are far more worried about the US gov putting us in jail (or murdering us outright) for our signal chats, protests, and "actions" than literally anything that the PRC might consider doing to us.

[ImJamal]

Perhaps people in the US commit more crimes than people in China?