I'm not implying anything, I am absolutely sure it is harder for the US government to get your personal data from US tech companies than it is for the Chinese government to get your data from TikTok.

Why would US Republicans be purchasing data from the Cambridge Analytica leak if Facebook was already handing it over? And this article was posted here the other day showing that the FBI cannot access messaging data from apps that properly implement E2EE. Even WhatsApp, a Meta product ffs, only hands over limited contact info, and big US tech has been increasingly adding E2EE to their apps and lobbying against backdoor access since the public backlash over the Snowden leaks.

But that isn't even the only concern, we're talking straight foreign influence as a security concern here. Yes, domestic influence is also bad, I'm against propaganda and dangerous censorship of all forms, but one is absolutely worse.

As you can probably tell from this thread, it's very easy to say edgy inflammatory like "I'd rather China have my data", but they rarely back it up with anything other than whatifs.