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I find it amusing that the US is accusing Huawei of doing to the US for China exactly what Xerox did to the USSR for the US.
by foreigner 7y ago
I find it amusing that the US is accusing Huawei of doing to the US for China exactly what Xerox did to the USSR for the US.
- jedberg 7y ago"Something something it's righteous when we do it but evil when they do it"
- CharlesColeman 7y ago> "Something something it's righteous when we do it but evil when they do it" That's too simplistic a take. There's a moral angle that you're missing: "they" are authoritarians with terrible human rights records (see: Dissidents, treatment of), "we" are a liberal democracy that's quite a bit better at human rights (though not perfect).
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoThat does seem to be the message from centuries of history.
- vinay427 7y agoWell, it's not hypocritical unless the US administration claims some sort of moral superiority as a result. No one as far as I know is seriously saying that the US is better than China for not having a Huawei (that we know about), but that the US and presumably its allies have an interest in avoiding this technology purely for their own self-interest.
- duxup 7y agoThe Russian embassy would have be within their right not to use a Xerox machine.
- jdietrich 7y agoNot to mention Bullrun and the Dual_EC_DRBG affair. I assume that all US-designed technology is backdoored and I think I have good reason to make that assumption.