And given the way Western companies are answerable only to themselves and their shareholders, (Google, Amazon, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and Facebook, to which we could add Youtube, Twitter, and Netflix) their apparent, visible, invisible or just opaque connections with the deep state that includes the military-industrial complex that uses cyber operations, cyber hacking, and all sorts of DNA and face recognition technologies (the best being Chinese by the way) this seems to be a legitimate consideration in the WEST as well.