You can look at that footage without even tiptoeing the swamp. To read the comments might be a different story, although by the time I got here it was quite ease to stay on dry land, which may have been different for you.

Then again, it's not about China, it's about a country with a regime that gives zero transparency and seemingly gives little about privacy regulation, and which has brought forth at least one big electronics company that's being blocked from big parts of western markets for fear of information (in)security.

Now, all that might be up for debate by itself, but you can hardly blame people extrapolate from that.