That’s not an equitable comparison.
The NSA compromised U.S technology companies by:
Blackmail
Bribery
Strong arming
surreptitiously through agents
Those companies then provided technological services for foreign Corporations of which at least some of them had expectations of privacy and security.
So it’s like this — Say Microsoft sold licenses for 1000 instances of Windows, SQL, MSword and MSoutlook.
Now the Corporation finds out that there are NSA backdoors into the software they are paying to use. These NSA backdoors go far beyond NSA as other more (subjectively) nefarious organizations find out they too can use the back doors.
What’s the company to do? Take Obama’s word that the U.S won’t do that anymore? Take the NSA word that ‘they’ll fix’ it?
It’s a violation of reasonable expectations if not outright violations of service contracts and non-disclosures (notice now how everybody has been including exemptions for information they may provide in secret to applicable government agencies?.
And we all know and it’s been reported over the years that the U.S government spies on foreign corporations as a form of strategic economic policy.
So, back at you. Why shouldn’t these U.S technology providers have their IP, patents and copyrights nullified?
Although I have no expectation of real privacy, or security, I am avoiding the certainty of compromise that using software from a company under the US government's thumb would give me.