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If you equate AT&T's said practices with Huawei's practices, then you just answered your own question. The Chinese Communist Party is not friend of freedom, nor
by ancorevard 8y ago
If you equate AT&T's said practices with Huawei's practices, then you just answered your own question. The Chinese Communist Party is not friend of freedom, nor of free journalism.
- algoritmi 8y agoNor is the US, If you think otherwise, think about what happend to Assange.
- ancorevard 8y agoWe need a larger time frame to put our world in its proper perspective. Freedom, including freedom of the press, is an anomaly in the history of the human race. That it came about is pretty much a miracle, there is nothing natural about it. And there is nothing natural about keeping it. You have to fight hard not to loose it. The US in this perspective has been a large force for freedom in the world. But that can change any moment. There are forces within US that wish the Constitution would just go away. That said, the US government is still a far far cry from being the totalitarian dictator the Chinese Communist Party currently is in China.
- pulse7 8y agoRegarding the "free journalism": we will see if the US lives up to the First Amendment in the Julian Assange case... 25 years ago the US was supporter of "free journalism", but today things are changing rapidly...
- spectramax 8y agoWhat about blasting President Trump on front page of NYTimes, almost every day since he was elected? US has a tremendous sense of free press, you can't pick and choose. Do you see any negative press about Xi Jingpin in China?
- Iv 8y agoI agree that we can't really compare the human rights violations of US vs the ones of China. The criticism here is that we can't just has "handles its data to the local government" as a criterion to judge a company unacceptable as the practice is, sadly, common over the globe.
- charlescearl 8y agoI do. You have two governments that tell respective large telecoms to “hand it over or else”. Back doors, trade secrets, what have you. The rest seems like splitting hairs. Private communication and the separation of the pipe/hardware vendor and the government has become an illusion in both instances.