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Is China Wiring Africa For Surveillance?
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Huawei has invested billions of dollars in Africa over the last two decades, providing affordable cell phones, internet access, and telecommunications networks to the continent. Over the last few months Huawei has closed major deals in Africa to get more areas on the grid. The company says it's bridging the digital divide, but others suspect it's wiring the continent for surveillance."
My friend from Germany went there and dug wells in the 70s and 80s. What happened to them? They got destroyed by warlords without people even lifting a finger to protect them.
Africans had over a thousand years of contact with the more advanced muslim world and yet still didn't utilize the wheel or the alphabet at the time of colonization. And now we're trying to give them modern amenities?
Fuck them. IQ tests show their inferior and they can't even build anything more than a backwards ass "civilization". There is no "right" approach other than to leave it the fuck alone.
Look, if someone else were wiring Africa (who have a better penetration of wireless phone access than many first world countries, since they have no infrastructure that incumbents can squeeze for more free profit, hence delay the move off it), would it be "Is France Wiring Africa for Surveilance"? Murica? Brits? Canadians? Wombles????
Listen, the problem seems to be that China is selling stuff, and this means others aren't being paid for selling stuff they get china to make and rebadge for them to sell.
Plus Betteridge.
NO.