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Probably partially due to a different Terms of Services being required for a Chinese account, such as "Local government agencies will have 24/7 full access to your data, and they can shut down your server for any reasons without prior notices", etc.

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How it's different from same implicit Terms for accounts in USA?

Perhaps in China agency needs court order? :-)

They won't share the data with the NSA, as the GCHQ and other agencies would :)

Another stupid NSA comment. Well, since you made the joke... I would bet that it is legally easier for the Chinese govt to get to your data, and they might be willing to share some of it with our govt for the right favors.

I'm not arguing that it's easier or harder for the Chinese government to get your data in China than it is for GCHQ to get your data in Britain. I'm only pointing out that they are less likely to give all that data to the NSA.

This could be important if you care about which government is reading your data.

Yeah, sure if you want to believe that. Let's hope the bad guys are that dumb, it'll make them easier to catch. We should just outsource the NSA to China so people feel safer, and it will cost less money.

It's more because any TOS will have to be written in Chinese and take into account Chinese law. You can't use an English TOS or just translate a foreign one. For a developing country, the Chinese legal system is actually very good. The problem most people run into with it is they assume they can just get away with standard boilerplate agreements like they do in other countries -- these are never valid in China.

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