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Here's a wikipedia article about mass surveillance in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite.... It's longer.

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what does the surveillance in the US have to do with a Swedish company and UK tv ads?

This is whataboutism. It doesn't address any of the points made above.

The point I was replying to used the existence of a Wikipedia article as proof that there is a problem in the UK regarding surveillance. By providing an example of similar articles about other locations I was showing that this alone is not particularly strong evidence. It certainly wasn't whataboutism, I don't even think the user I was replying to is from the US.

> By providing an example of similar articles about other locations I was showing that this alone is not particularly strong evidence.

How does linking similar articles help demonstrate that? That doesn't seem like very strong (counter?)evidence.

If only one country has an article about something you'd probably think it's an outlier. If every country has the article then you'd more likely think it's just part of life. I didn't make an assertion, I'm not providing evidence.

I don't even disagree with the post, I just don't like seeing shallow dismissals where someone could've actually put effort in to make a point. So I did the same.

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