The Silicon Valley is plunging the world into techno-religiousness. It’s always the Silicon Valley as long as it’s not found in your continent.
If a country or continent develops bleeding-edge technologies, their own people have a sense of belonging and laud the innovation.
As soon as it’s beyond borders, suddenly people care about health and well being and also of course the need not to import some devilish merch from abroad.
Privacy, sanity, and scrutiny are relevant as long as they throw the competition under the bus. These are readily puffed out of the scene if there are economic gains around.