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>>el_dud+(OP)
The US is forcing its tourists to give away a list of all their social media accounts and all their email accounts. If you're a foreign journalist writing pseudonymously for your safety, you must now share that information with the US government to enter the country. This isn't quite on the level of forcing people to install malware on their phone yet, but give it a couple years.

>>murbar+04
> The US ...

This style of argument is deflection, and it gets us nowhere.

It's very effective in redirecting the focus away from one bad actor and onto another bad actor, though.

>>panark+ph
Why is the conversation to be focused exclusively on China, though? Maybe the correct lesson to be drawn from this is the creeping dangers of authoritarian power in any country. Maybe seeing the abuses of China together with those of the USA - and the other FIVE EYES countries, and elsewhere, will lead us to understand that we need to keep tight reins on all government. But forcing us to discuss only what China has done denies us the opportunity for such a conversation.