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look we've talked about this before but the more I reflect on the events of this year in the last the more of this entire escapade seems hypocritical but on whose behalf ours and theirs and here's why I feel this way it's easy to look past certain things but an activate Windows watermark yeah not one of those things snag a verified Oh a.m. Windows 10 key from s CD key for a little over 10 bucks and enjoy a fully activated OS without the annoying compromises use offer code as studio for an 18 percent discount on your order so I'm just gonna start this one out by reading a few top comments and their YouTube videos related to hua ways of national security threat these are actually pulled from I believe a CNBC YouTube video I would rather the Chinese spy on me than the US government probably because Huawei doesn't leave backdoors to the US CIA for spying USA if you all use Huawei how can I continue spying the world so do you see trend there it seems like as of late more people are aware of various degrees of spying that take place on a day to day basis within governments and if anything are more content about it now because we continue to use those products knowing this is happening on the DL it's something the u.s. is notorious for especially after leaks from people like Edward Snowden who became a well famous or infamous depending how you look at him whistleblower over US government surveillance programs I should meet my phone that he thought were vastly overreaching and intrusive without a doubt our own government spies they just have to be a little more forthcoming about it now or at least that's what we're supposed to believe the truth is spying has always existed because information that can be obtained it's that much more valuable when the opposing party has no idea you've obtained it consider the show bait car this was a series on the u.s. involving random cars that were left either running open or unlocked and it's very sketchy parts of whatever town they happened to be in police would watch them far as potential suspects snooped around and debated grand theft eventually someone would hop in the car attempt to drive away and be stopped by a flood of hidden officers who conveniently had a kill switch built into the car in question the show itself was controversial for a number of reasons which is probably I'm saying was not is but I use this analogy to shed light on the importance of spying verse generic surveillance in the case of the latter the subject knows more than likely that he or she is being watched or at least it's implied spying however involves total secrecy you aren't supposed to know what's happening and when a spy is caught well yeah bad news for the spy the u.s. claims a Huawei is a puppet for the Chinese government so they're technically accusing China of spiney necessarily Huawei is an important distinction to make think of the company more like a tool it's convenient for China because they have a front they're undercover and I have no doubt that this is actually happening I mean sure you'll find several articles out there stating that no official proof has been outlined by the House Intelligence Committee or any other branch of government especially when they've been asked for information the stuff they've actually revealed is not really that forthcoming if the u.s. revealed the proof that they had on Hawaa way spying then they'd be compromising their own means of spying so I can kind of understand why we haven't gotten an explicit answer yet so you can think of it like two thieves breaking into a bank and then one of those thieves calling the cops on the other right both are going to jail so yes folks China and the u.s. both spy right this shouldn't be news to any of you other country to do it as well we're just focused on these two because Huawei seems to be taking massive heat as of late so where is the hypocrisy then I bet my bank account China has many companies working on the deal for its Ministry of Public Security some are even probably publicized as being arms of the Chinese government they've already admitted to a lot of it Chinese citizens are being watched 24/7 and you know what that's their reality here in the States we have a different expectation of privacy though it should be noted however that there is no specific right to privacy referenced except what is referenced in the Fourth Amendment the Constitution Katz V u.s. clearly defines limits of search and seizure particularly when a government agency is involved this includes phone surveillance which is defined as an unwarranted search but that doesn't stop the u.s. from doing it on a daily basis and this ties back into Snowden's revelation of classified material proving that the US was still actively involved in surveying phones emails and cameras of millions of guests their own citizens so do you see the hypocrisy now speaking of media and government what I honestly believe to be an equal or even more hypocritical aspect of the Chinese system is its governing dominance over media outlets love homer Hayden Fox CNN MSNBC and others while they do have their inherent biases and most of them are pretty obvious they are not by definition state-run the US government doesn't force writers and anchors to say certain things he obviously can't misquote with the attention of deceit and all that stuff's all covered in the First Amendment that would conflict with yeah the First Amendment but the right to the freedom of the press and expression of opinion is also covered under the First Amendment and that's why it's such an important Amendment that's why it's the first one in China's case however state-run media filters undesired opinions and even facts what their government wants to be heard will be heard so when you see surveys and announcements by state-run Chinese media that you know their citizens are content with the security laws in place you got to take that with a huge chunk of salt because are they really pulling Chinese citizens in mass and then just you know straight-up importing those raw results into a script that an anchor will read in China honestly try to picture that but here's where it really gets me when mangwon xu the CFO of Huawei was detained in Canada over suspicions that US sanctions against Iran had been violated the Chinese government argued that the US was quote violating the rights and interest of Chinese citizens this is extremely hypocritical as John Stonestreet Roberto Rivera point out they say that men's rights should be respected obviously but that her government's appeal to those rights should not be trying to frequently incarcerates large populations of people because of the religions that they practice free speech as we know it does not exist their search and seizure due process none of that and I say all of that to say this no country's hands are clean we've fought massive wars over intelligence over oil over pieces of paper we've and I'm talking about all people here on planet Earth we've spied on millions upon millions of people for the sake of intelligence for the sake of the upper-hand the sake of power does any of this really need to be said I mean honestly I feel like I'm kind of preaching to the choir here but this is something that I think is just it's easy to point the finger at the other country but you could imagine how a lot of them are probably seeing this the same way the u.s. is notorious for this kind of stuff and look if you're this worried about Huawei you should probably stay off the Internet as some have said Facebook and Google are probably spying as well and they're probably better at it thanks to the information you've so graciously thrown their way I happen to agree if they're not spying they're at least collecting data in large sums and we're volunteering it right the stark difference between the US and China when it comes to privacy in this case is that in in the u.s. citizens freely and willingly surrender their information maybe not to the government directly but they could certainly gain access to it when needed by either a subpoena or surveillance China forces its citizens into giving it up so you get what I'm saying right millions of cameras all over that country were put in place to spy on US citizens sure the u.s. probably has a similar infrastructure but a lot of it's a decentralize and local a gas station might have a security camera over its cash register but it's not state-run and the NSA probably isn't watching 24/7 maybe it is I have no idea the Internet has opened so many doors for so many surveillance programs and I imagine it will only get worse with time so this is probably both the US and China's fault when I see articles pertaining to Huawei and things like Google dropping partial support and the government discouraging sales and blacklisting them I just kind of chuckle I mean it is hypocritical sure you could argue that Chinese you know companies and the Chinese government handle things far worse but blood is on our hands as well figuratively and literally ignorance is bliss what it ultimately comes down to is who you are more comfortable with spying on you because it's happening all the time it's you know something a tinfoil hat is not going to fix that here are only so thick you guys have been awesome I appreciate the the patient's watching this one and if you have a comment or suggestion for future video leave that in the comments section below that's what it's there for if you also have a very strong opinion about this particular topic leave that in comment section I'm sure - I'm sure I'll see many of those I'll just leave it at that thumbs up thumbs down you know to do click that red subscribe button become a member feeling especially fancy now catch on the next one this is science studio thanks for watching and thanks for with us