Comment by Maken
3 days ago
You are mixing apples and oranges. The infamous Huawei deal was buying tons of HDD servers. Any deal with Palantir is handling all your data to the NSA.
3 days ago
You are mixing apples and oranges. The infamous Huawei deal was buying tons of HDD servers. Any deal with Palantir is handling all your data to the NSA.
The NSA have Congressional oversight and are held accountable for their (mis)deeds, more or less.
The Chinese MSS and the Chinese Communist Party itself aren't even accountable to God.
Because the NSA has such a great record of getting punished from their transgressions, right?
For foreign countries, handling your data to either the Chinese surveillance apparatus or the USA one makes no difference. In fact, any company with such deep ties with a foreign intelligence agency as Palantir should be automatically considered a security thread in other nations.
Anyway, the deal with Huawei was about buying hardware, not handling over data.
Congressional oversight doesn't mean much here, since the CCP also serves that role.
The real problem is that, even though US is, in practice, a de-facto two-party between democrats and republicans, the PRC is a de-facto one-party system. There's also the overall opportunities for change and revolution that US society provides, that are absent in the PRC.
De jure one-party system. No other political parties are permitted.
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