What does China have to do with the evils of the US intelligence community? Why even bring them up? What does potentially seeking influence with people have to do with blackmailing people or other COINTELPRO activities that were used to disrupt civil rights activists?
i wasn't bringing in China just for the sake of it. if you read enough threads here on HN, you'll see people making comments "i'd rather the CCP have my data than the TLAs of the US, since the CCP has no jurisdiction". it's a strawman privacy argument. invasion of privacy is bad regardless of the "who" is doing it. all of the pervasive tracking that is occurring has so many levels of knock-on effects that just get ignored or overlooked or whatever other term for being allowed is just not a good thing and should be something not allowed.