Comment by margalabargala
7 days ago
Sure but if you are not Chinese or in China, then the chances of negative consequences to you from the Chinese feds is vanishingly small due to lack of ability to do anything that affects you.
Meanwhile if you are in the US, DHS has already subpoenaed social media sites looking for people who made anti-ICE posts and I can't imagine they consider subpoenaing AI conversations off limits https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-s...
Also the US government has defacto extra-territorial jurisdiction due to the willingness of allied countries (i.e. most of the developed world) to extradite.
Of course only applies when they really want to get you, but that's still a risk.
The chances of a foreign country extraditing you (or the US requesting extradition) over social media posts is for now quite low, fortunately, though you're right.
Broader point being, in general if a country's federal police are going to be spying on you, if you get to pick the country you should pick the one in which you do not reside and don't plan to visit. For a typical US citizen who is not an intelligence target, the chances of negative consequences from China spying on them is way lower than the chances of negative consequences from the FBI spying on them, simply because the FBI will have nonzero false positives.
As a less extreme example: consider how many non-USA hosts say they follow the DMCA.