You’re not “inb4 whataboutism”, you’re the one who brought up China when the meme had nothing to do with it in order to downplay U.S. surveillance. We can talk about this point, but don’t talk about anticipating “whataboutism” when you’re the one doing it.
As for Chinese surveillance (in your words, “by the CCP”, although the correct abbreviation is CPC, and the CPC would not be performing this), China has fewer police per capita than the U.S. by a decent margin and fewer surveillance cameras in relation to its population; the Chinese “spy balloon” the U.S. shot down (it wasn’t really [1] [2]) was a mirror of the U.S. mass surveillance balloons used on their own population, although only one got massive outrage/reporting in the country (this occurred by pure chance). You of course cite no evidence for your points, and yet confidently put down the ridiculous notion of not considering surveillance in China to be “worse than” the U.S. No, the “great firewall” does not monitor private chats (the U.S. monitors private chats as well, so where is the “pales in comparison” thing), it is specifically the wall of “information” that is blocked rightfully, whereas monitoring is done separately (through the GSP or elsewhere).
You’re not “inb4 whataboutism”, you’re the one who brought up China when the meme had nothing to do with it in order to downplay U.S. surveillance. We can talk about this point, but don’t talk about anticipating “whataboutism” when you’re the one doing it.
As for Chinese surveillance (in your words, “by the CCP”, although the correct abbreviation is CPC, and the CPC would not be performing this), China has fewer police per capita than the U.S. by a decent margin and fewer surveillance cameras in relation to its population; the Chinese “spy balloon” the U.S. shot down (it wasn’t really [1] [2]) was a mirror of the U.S. mass surveillance balloons used on their own population, although only one got massive outrage/reporting in the country (this occurred by pure chance). You of course cite no evidence for your points, and yet confidently put down the ridiculous notion of not considering surveillance in China to be “worse than” the U.S. No, the “great firewall” does not monitor private chats (the U.S. monitors private chats as well, so where is the “pales in comparison” thing), it is specifically the wall of “information” that is blocked rightfully, whereas monitoring is done separately (through the GSP or elsewhere).
Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?