Originally Posted by
pete376403
The fact that an American company is subservient to the US PATRIOT act i.e. all your data are belong to US (Goverment) has escaped notice. Or has that law been repealed?
When I was looking at installing a VPN recently, geoblocking pisses me off, one recommendation was to avoid brands hosted from the US. The US Govt, whichever acts they are using, has too much control over US companies.
IIRC the FBI went after Mega Upload because they used some servers in the US. Otherwise they would have had zero justification to act against a Hong Kong registered company owned by a German/Finn citizen resident in NZ.
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