One of the many reasons why Empire's surveillance is exponentially more harmful, in my opinion, than surveillance elsewhere in the world, is because of surveillance data sharing that occurs between countries.
Empire wants borders except when it comes to our data.
We can absolutely own our own our own means of communication. The People's Internet.
We spend billions on the cloud and internet service providers to use their submarine cable infrastructure. Why not own it ourselves?
A Chinese court has ruled against AI replacing workers.