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The rationale for cutting off Huawei seems to be "No matter how much you claim to not spy, you are forced to comply when the Chinese government tells you to do
by needle0 7y ago
The rationale for cutting off Huawei seems to be "No matter how much you claim to not spy, you are forced to comply when the Chinese government tells you to do so" - which so far appears to be the hypothetical worst case scenario. Considering that, it's kinda ironic that Google/Amazon/ARM et al are all _actually_ carrying out Huawei's own (formerly)hypothetical worst-case scenario because the US government told them to do so.
- penagwin 7y agoHuawei isn't part of the Five Eyes (or the extensions of it), so any data they collect of Five Eye nations is a threat. Data Five Eye nations collect on each other or themselves isn't a threat because they're allies, often using each other to allow surveillance while loopholing some laws in their respective countries. I don't like it either, just explaining the motivations at play here. Also you must expect any entity (company, individual, etc.) to obey their government, otherwise there's not much point in a government is there (not that the governments decisions are necessarily good ones)?