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"The sinister Huawei has close ties with the Chinese government. Our companies can't compete on a level playing field!"
by typon 6y ago
"The sinister Huawei has close ties with the Chinese government. Our companies can't compete on a level playing field!"
- kube-system 6y agoTech is in bed with the government everywhere on the planet, and has been for a long time. The question has never been about fairness, it is: who has your interests in mind?
- bavell 6y agoAs hard as it may be to accept, this is the reality we live in.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoNone of them particularly care about the average citizens interests, so treating the two similarly seems fair.
- Dirlewanger 6y agoWho would you rather have logs of all your Internet activity: your own government, or another government thousands of miles away that is increasingly at odds with country's?
- boomboomsubban 6y agoThis is never an either/or situation, it is neither/both.
- pc86 6y agoIt is increasingly "both, and do nothing about it" or "both, and be vocally opposed to it, and potentially cause issues for yourself x years from now."
- phobosanomaly 6y agoI could argue that I'm much more worried about the set of events my own government can set in action against me if they so choose. The other government has less power over me because they are thousands of miles away and don't control the institutions that I need to function as a citizen. That being said, the foreign government might be less afraid of using my information against me, since they would be less afraid of blowback. I guess I'm not sure. Both suck. Better use TAILS.
- kube-system 6y agoThe answer highly depends on who you are, what you do, and who is interested in your information.
- robin_reala 6y agoIn this case the US really doesn’t have my interests in mind.
- modo_mario 6y agoOver ehre in Small Belgium it doesn't feel like it. In bed with big internationals for other reasons some of which local like de beers sure tho but that just smells more of corruption than anything protectionist or intelligence based
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoBecause EU countries don't have mammoth sized, trillion dollar SW companies with a global monopoly. If your country's software industry is comprised mostly of 10-200 person web shops and consultancies there's no real gain for the Goverment agencies to be in bed with them.
- Dahoon 6y agoIf you follow that thought through to other industries, what do you think Denmark learns of US military movement and equipment from the armies biggest heavy lifter, Danish Maersk shipping? It can't be much since outside the software world companies don't sift through every single piece of "cargo" and goes to show why you shouldn't trust foreign software companies at all, allies or not.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoErr... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP Billion, trillion, shmillion, lose some, win some, it's all virtual. Not backed by anything real. I mean, you can see the house of cards falling down because of a sneeze right now :-)
- pc86 6y agoWeird Ron Paul fiat currently pseudo-rant notwithstanding, SAP is a good example but an outlier. Pick a random multinational [b|tr]illion-dollar software company and it's going to be American most of the time, and from San Francisco most of the time that it's American.