How else is China collecting all its data on its citizens?

Yup. And to complement this, gotta love when people react to the side effects of water!

When it comes to hardware, isn’t the situation usually…

• American company is spying on customers through hardware it sold
• American government is actively trying to spy on citizens through hardware (American-made or not), but the company blocks them unless they have a warrant
• Chinese company freely shares data back and forth through the Chinese government using their hardware thanks to “backdoors”

I mean, you did do the opposite of what an AskLemmy post asked. And the post itself is a follow-up or response to a previous post that asked the question you wanted to answer…

If you listen in noisy environments, I’d bet active-noise cancellation is good for your hearing though

Disappointed, sure, but I don’t think you should be surprised.

Canada was founded as a country specifically for the purpose of genocide. Virtually the entire country is on settled and stolen land. It would be hypocritical to be against someone else doing the same.