3) if a teen can do it, then so can every intelligence service in the world. Just that they would probably stay quiet for years and years and gather data of "interesting" people.
Americans can be proud that they are the only country that actually stands up against tyrants like the CCP.
Compare that to what we do here in Europe: not only don't we do anything after China took control of Hongkong. We finance Putin by building yet another gas pipeline. And we finance Erdogan via the "refugee pact".
Ah yes, the rich first worlder wants to be able to use their 5k USD camera to take pictures of the sky.
What do they care if poor people in rural Africa can develop their farm with better and faster access to the internet, or if children in central Amazons will be able to get reliable internet at school.