Comment by Thirkle on chinchilla's wild implications · 2022-07-31T22:44:42.078Z · LW · GW

Another implication is that centralised governments with the ability to aggressively collect and monitor citizen's data, such as China, could be major players.

A government such as China has no need to scrape data from the Internet, while being mindful of privacy regulations and copyright. Instead they can demand 1.4 billion people's data from all of their domestic tech companies. This includes everything such as emails, texts, WeChat, anything that the government desires.