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This is just 100% untrue

Yes, what happens is that the US asks Australia, part of 5 eyes, to use their back doors, which need to be install by law there https://fee.org/articles/australia-s-unprecedented-encryptio..., for any user data US agencies want.

Completely different to China just having access to that data.

I like how this is getting downvoted despite being provably correct.

I like to say that the difference between Republicans and Democrats in the US is that Republicans break the law and Democrats subvert it.

It's no wonder that the largely liberal audience of HN supports the subversion route the US takes compared to the more brutal but vastly more honest way the Chinese do it.

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