[pavs]

You don't have to be an american to have selective bias. The idea that Americans (or any first world country) are less likely to do more harm by spying on their people comes from a belief that American government are morally superior. A dangerous type of thinking which leds to them going to a war under false pretense and killing 100s of thousands of people without and repercussions and very little legal or public scrutiny.

Can you imagine what would happen if China was involved in a "preemptive" war against any other nation and killed ~300,000 people?

But when "First world" government does it, "oh they had good intentions...", "they were less likely to do any harm.."

[klibertp]

"comes from a belief that American government are morally superior"

Not necessarily. It may as well come from a belief that "first world" governments are better supervised by people, journalists and politicians, that legislative, judiciary and executive branches of government are actually independent, or that said country is far away and probably not interested as much in someone as his own government.

How unfounded and idealistic those beliefs are is a matter of discussion, but there are many possible reasons for preferring "first world" country as an entity controlling the flow of data. Compared to the alternatives, where corruption and nepotism are much more rampant, where the opposition is routinely persecuted by the government, where journalists are killed by special agents, where you can land in a prison for long years because you jokingly said something to your friend...