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Because now the trend is that rather than have freedom, and risk making even big mistakes, people, including those who said they'd staunchly defend it, would rather have no freedom to avoid mistakes (and ultimately doing them anyway).

Sorry, not dealing with this.

That's nowhere close to what the CCP does, sorry. (Assuming bona fide that it is true) Not even the same league.

But we're getting OT.

Geo-politics has started changing how countries perceive, US tech companies.

Also the opposite is true. But even if there are tensions, I don't think it's even remotely close to what the Chinese government does. Distrust is one thing, but in the Chinese case, it's far beyond that.

a bit more paranoid about people working on government infrastructure that happen to be working from inside China.

To be fair, "unauthorized flows of information" from the USA to China have been a thing for the past decade (I remember a particularly egregious scandal in some university).