I would never claim that China is performing less surveillance of its citizens. They definitely are a world leader in this, in a very bad way.

However, mindless commenters spamming social credit demerits on any post that mentions China only serve to feed the exaggerations and inaccuracies.

Fine, what national security obligations are US-based social media companies meeting that TikTok/ByteDance is not?

Like what? What are American companies required to do to protect your privacy that TikTok doesn’t do because they are a Chinese company?

There has been a widespread misconception that China operates a nationwide and unitary social credit “score” based on individuals’ behavior, leading to punishments if the score is too low. Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

Judging by the downvote count, I was off by 2x. My apologies to the community!

(For the record, I have nothing against GrapheneOS, but also no use for it)

All six GrapheneOS users should be proud that the developers of their phone software are genius inventors!

Why do we “need” to change laws to artificially inflate the price of cars? Don’t we give enough money and government control to Ford and GM?

That particular Snickers bar was briefly worth $1,000.