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Huawei (a Chinese company) was paying Google a bunch of money in 2019 until they were banned by the government. You may argue that this was justified for nation
by wonnage 6y ago
Huawei (a Chinese company) was paying Google a bunch of money in 2019 until they were banned by the government. You may argue that this was justified for national security reasons, but the decision was ultimately up to the whims of the president, and not subject to any sort of actual process or oversight by elected officials.
- frequentnapper 6y agoTrump, like it or not, is an elected official and I doubt he understands very much about tech to make that decision on his own.
- samplatt 6y ago"Elected official" is such a funny term, these days. It CAN mean a legitimate installation of a decision-maker based on decisions (votes) of their peers, but in the case of Saruman the Orange, it can also mean the (unfortunately) technically-legitimate theft of power by hostile forces.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoWhat was Huawei paying Google for? If anything, Google was paying Huawei to be the default search engine on its phones outside of China.