Congrats to making Canada hate you, congrats to allying with Russia and making yourself equal to them.
So, yes, quite many people perceived America positively or neutrally,both in Canada and in EU. Includes people who don't know about existing legislation designed to keep data inside borders.
In my younger days, I had a significant other who took advantage of my good nature, expected me to pay for everything, and was borderline abusive toward me at times. When I finally stood up to her, she told me she hated me. I believed her.
Could you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We had to ask you this just recently. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
I promise not to exceed the level of unmoderated flamebait, vitriol, hatred and froth directed at me and my ideological cohort by the average HN poster.
That heuristic doesn't work! Everyone always overestimates the provocations done by others and underestimates their own. If the distortion is 10x each way and you go with this perception, that makes for a 100x skew [1]. This is how we end up with a downward spiral and the war of all against all [2]. It always feels like the other person started it and did worse [3]. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear [4].
What we need you to do instead is follow HN's rules regardless of how badly other people are breaking them or you feel they are. We need others to do that as well, of course—it's nothing personal.
So, yes, quite many people perceived America positively or neutrally,both in Canada and in EU. Includes people who don't know about existing legislation designed to keep data inside borders.