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Well I live in the UK and am more concerned with Five Eyes monitoring me than China.

China might be able to hack my servers or steal from my PayPal account, if they cared. Five Eyes can ruin my life and leave me destitute, or imprisoned. Or just have me SWATted if I am particularly troublesome.

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So that's a fair point, you're more concerned re UK/US because you are citizen/in a controlled country. I think that might be how a lot of people feel, and I agree. But can you see how for the equivalent guy living in someone firmly under China's influence they would be more scared of Chinese surveillance than you are of Five-Eyes? And that it would be further reaching in terms of what sort of actions might lead to repercussions?

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