@nicholas_saunders
> I for one, would prefer that our own national security aparatus spy on us rather than the CCP
Really? I'd rather ours spy on the CCP than on us ; )
Seriously though, I think what the comparison tells us is that the datafarming apparatus is an existential threat to democracy. If we don't want our political systems to become more like China's, we need to rapidly disassemble those apparatus. Not tinker with their ownership.