Taiwan Times: Since 2018, Z Holdings, the company managing Line in Japan, outsourced the handling of its servers to a Chinese company.

As a result, Chinese engineers obtained permission to look at data about Line users as well as at the content of their messages.

This is a good example of how it's not just China's fault. How the fuck does a private Japanese company think it's fine to outsource LINE data to a Chinese company? Which is then required by Chinese law to provide access for the CCP?

Later they will say 'Oh, who knew? We try to keep politics out it' - same line the scientist use - but what did they think was gonna happen? Obviously they don't give a shit - not when there's money involved.

It's similar to when i hear people complain about 'Made in China crap'. It takes two to tango for that product to get on the shelf of a mega-store in the free-world. The Chinese will make anything you want - if you want quality - sure - but it costs more. If you want cheap crap so you can super-size your profits - yeah we can do that too.

The nut behind the wheel of the non-China company, be it K-Mart, or LINE, is fully-complicit in producing those outcomes.