While the USA is far from perfect, it is not nearly as bad as China on allowing services to protect peoples privacy. For one recent example see the Apple V FBI cases and ask yourself what would have happened if they tried that in China.<p>The USA is also pretty close to perfect on not censoring stuff, while China is the worst of any major country.<p>2. is a very relevant point, though one wonders if China avoids being too aggressive in abusing that in order to keep the manufacturing base there.<p>I would however add 3. that this is open source code, and if they were going to put in backdoors or censors they would probably aim to do it in their server&#x27;s as a result. Since they encourage other people to implement their own servers, maybe just do that before using this for anything sensitive.