Imagine any major Chinese IT company pushing back against government requests like Dreamhost did. Even the biggest ones can't/won't. It helps that the government is a huge investor in most of them, of course.
"Chinese IT company rebuffs government demand for user information on its website". This headline does not exist.
"The N.S.A. bans its analysts from using Kaspersky antivirus at the agency, in large part because the agency has exploited antivirus software for its own foreign hacking operations and knows the same technique is used by its adversaries."
1. Is hacking into a foreign AV company by a state an OK thing to do?
2. How do we know the anonymous source is being truthful?
3. If yes to the first two, are we certain that it wasn't exploited but was coerced?
4. If all of these things are true and they were coerced, what is the practical difference for the party being monitored?
In China it is not even theoretically possible because the gov't mandates backdoors and can easily shut down your company if you don't comply. You have way less recourse on rule of law.
We ban such accounts that do these things, so would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop?
Think about the fact that the FBI had to actually get a warrant to even begin talking to Lavabit. They had to actually go through bureaucracy. It was not instantly handed over to them on request.