Looking for VPN services that are not based in the West

[Astatine]

@jerm

The link you provided is irrelevant, you could post about something about VPN services with direct CCP ties or whatever other than some reports about Tencent having CCP “employees”,

It is relevant if you read the article, as shown below .

All Chinese companies, public or private, are required to have a member of the CCP on staff to hand down official party edicts. In addition, many companies have an internal CCP committee that comprises part of the governance structure.

I furthermore was using China as an obvious example, but of course Western countries have similar practices.

@jerm

do you think big tech in U.S doesn’t have any? The problem is if you are doing some activities that west may not like, wouldn’t that spark their rivals into your activities to see what you do (it depends on what you are doing of course)

I completely agreee. My point was NOT to say “oh look, big bad china with bad practices,” since I made it clear in a post. What I’m specifically referring to from that post is:

@Astatine

The “Company x is based in Russia, so it shouldn’t be used!” is just completely wrong. We should not just be skeptical and cautious about products from Russia, China, Iran, and others, but all products in general, like Google for example.