Because the U.S. certainly doesn't use slave labor...

https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploit...

Did I say anything about giving the US points?

So then, should the useful heuristic include the US as well? By far, the most imprisoning country in the history of the Earth? Whose major technology companies have been clearly documented to be funneling user information to that same state's security services?

If you want to talk about the US, go start a thread about that. This was a specific comment about a specific claim made about China.