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The American government is sketchy as hell too, but you aren't here telling us not to trust American developers...
No, I do that on threads about american devs. You can't just hand wave any criticisms of a government away with "racism" or "but whatabout this other government you also complain about?!"
I notice you haven't told me that homophobia is bad too while you're calling me racist, I guess that means you like homophobia? No? That's just as ridiculous as "if you criticise one government you have to criticise them all in the same comment." This isn't "did you bring enough criticism for the whole class" time.
None of this should be news to anyone here, lemmy is highly privacy focused and that doesn't go away simply because the proprietary blobs in question could be doing sketchy things for the CCP instead of the NSA, either way it's bad to normal people who aren't blindly allegiant to the CCP or the NSA.