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Other governments lack the ability to take my property, take my freedom, or take my life.

FBI has the ability, with a single action, to ruin any resident's of the US life, I think that is significantly more worrisome than if Russia or China has my face unless I lived in Russia or China

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I didn't down-vote you as I believe views like this should be stated but responded to properly. Your safety from foreign governments is not guaranteed even if you live within the borders of the United States. A perfect example of this is a post by someone else here on Hacker News pertaining to the tools that the Chinese government uses to identify dissidents outside of their borders.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/business/china-internet-p...

Nothing in that story seems to concern me or most US Citizens, if you are a Chinese citizen living in the US, attended a US University then return home sure you should be concerned and I do not condone the actions of China. However I am a Natural Born US Citizen, and I have no plans or desire to ever visit China, Russia, or even Europe

And lets be real here. FBI is not much different, and has more direct control over people in the US than the china bogey man you are attempting to peddle

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