Why aren't Chinese people afraid of US companies collecting their data? (programming.dev)

submitted 13 hours ago by ghodawalaaman@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I have seen a lot post talking about how Chinese companies collect US citizens data but I never seen a Chinese person complain about it. Do they think US doesn't have the power to abuse that data?

Really curious

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[-] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 56 points 13 hours ago

There's a national firewall that blocks Google and Meta... they have national pihole...

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 36 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

This is the right answer. The PRC doesn't let US surveillance giants operate within their country like most other countries naively do.

NoWayKnowHow - The firewall is good actually

[-] meerstyler@feddit.org 12 points 13 hours ago

Should EU do that too instead of age verification?

this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026

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