The West found it much easier to get everyone to willingly install listening and tracking devices in their homes. Hey Google, who’s the CIA agent assigned to browsing my search logs today?
Social media didn’t exist back in the Cold War, and if it did, the Soviets would have restricted it for being western, and made their own which was heavily censored and monitored just like the Chinese social media.
So I don’t get why this is a western problem if the other side would have done it as well given the chance, and the Chinese are actively doing it.
Yeah, I wonder why Western social media companies spying on people is a Western problem. Truly a mystery.
I won’t deny it is a problem, since I know to what extent data is collected, and where it might go. I am only asking on your position with China doing the exact same thing.