Assuming OP is within the US or EU then there is no real risk to using Chinese services compared to a real risk when using EU/US services. China can’t arrest you in California or Italy. Also Chinese services are unlikely to cooperate with the US/EU’s increasingly fascist laws. There are other risks like censorship (or the fact that most Chinese services don’t actually serve non-Chinese customers in the first place) but that’s not what OP is concerned about in this post.
The overseas service stations are such a bad faith point in this situation. That would only be able to be used against people who are Chinese citizens, and even according to the Wikipedia page it’s not likely, which OP almost certainly is not.
OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Assuming OP is within the US or EU then there is no real risk to using Chinese services compared to a real risk when using EU/US services. China can’t arrest you in California or Italy. Also Chinese services are unlikely to cooperate with the US/EU’s increasingly fascist laws. There are other risks like censorship (or the fact that most Chinese services don’t actually serve non-Chinese customers in the first place) but that’s not what OP is concerned about in this post.
mabeledo@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
That’s highly debatable.
True, they have their very own flavour of fascism. I just find it ironic that the proposed solution here is to rely on another fascistic state.
OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
The overseas service stations are such a bad faith point in this situation. That would only be able to be used against people who are Chinese citizens, and even according to the Wikipedia page it’s not likely, which OP almost certainly is not.
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Yeah. I mean it was just a shitpost because the EU IS becoming more and more fascist. E.g. Italy banned VPNs.
But I have really no clue if using Chinese digital services is even an option. They often seem to need some kind of national id.