I own a Boox and I've thought about putting it on my tailnet... I love the device, but unfortunately, I trust it about as far as I trust the Chinese government, which means no connections to my accounts or networks, ever. It's a shame.
Between the two of them, it rules out most the devices I have or what like.
He convinced me with these words that the false equivalence was in fact a lie that the Chinese government wants Europeans and Americans to believe. And I came to see that he was right.
I'll note that I was, at one point, scared and chased out of the United States, had my apartment surveilled and broken into, and police going through my trash cans, all because of a novel I wrote and posted online. When I met my Tibetan friend I had been exiled from the US for nearly 8 years, and had no trust in it. That conversation, and living in several authoritarian countries, was the starting point of changing my mind about there being no difference.