Comment by hmry

That's really not the point they were making.

You are much more likely to be repressed/harrassed/arrested by your local government than a foreign government. So a local government knowing your behavior is more likely to lead to bad consequences than a foreign government knowing.

Of course, that might change in the future. Hypothetical example, the US government bans you from using any US cloud services because of what you did in private.

Though that's not exactly exclusive to governments either, Google banning you from GMail and Google Docs because of your YouTube uploads is already a thing.