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Huawei Had a Deal To Give Washington Redskins Fans Free Wi-Fi, Until the Government Stepped In (wsj.com)
Two years after a congressional report labeled Huawei a national-security threat, the Chinese firm unexpectedly scored a big-name ally in Washington. It was the Redskins, the capital's National Football League franchise. Huawei reached an agreement in 2014 to beam Wi-Fi through the suites at the team's FedEx Field, in exchange for advertising in the stadium and during broadcasts. From a report: It was a marketing coup for a company hankering to beef up its meager U.S. business and boost its image inside the Beltway. But the deal didn't last long. A government adviser read about the partnership. He knew the FedEx Field suites were a frequent haunt for lawmakers and senior officials across many agencies. So he triggered an unofficial federal complaint to the Redskins, who quietly tore up the deal. That previously unreported backroom maneuver is an example of a yearslong effort by U.S. officials, often working outside formal channels, to blacklist the Chinese technology giant. Washington has since intensified the campaign and taken it mainstream, with Congress and federal agencies working this year to snuff out Huawei's small U.S. business and curtail its much bigger overseas ambition. Further reading: Huawei Exceeds 200 Million Smartphone Shipments, Setting Company Record.
Are you communist shills being paid to wait for first posts?
Terrorists can blow us up and corps can sell our children's futures wholesale, but by God any foreign government who even THINKS they can spy on us like the NSA etc does can start thinking again. "Mine!", says Washington.
Huawei's Honor used to be my go-to budget smartphone brand for some time. Well, to my surprise the Honor 7x, the phone introduced early in 2018, never hit the shelves at our local Best Buy, and then they just dropped all of Huawei's products. This is pretty annoying because I prefer Huawei/Honor to Lenovo, Samsung or LG.
Thatâ(TM)s what they thought you meant by âoethatâ(TM)s a startâ so they move quick
Authoritarian states that have been at (proxy) war with us and would fight again if they thought they'd win.
So basically every country, then.
Duuuuuuuhhhh yuuuuh, when I honeymooned in the USSR, I saw a bwight fuchew for Uhhhhmerica. The Soviets sent me back, an enlightened man. And since those days, I have been championing the uhhh common man.
But with dictator government under TRUMP
It's truly beautiful how you have the freedom to post on US websites that you think the current US president is a dictator. I hope some day citizens of Russia and China may have the freedom to complain similarly about Xi and Putin but it probably won't happen until well after their lifetime office holding is over.
Still waiting for the moment the realization hits everyone on Slashdot that maybe giant interfering overreaching government is a bad idea.
No? Guess you all really love Trump then, though I would have thought otherwise from most comments here. I'll check back in a year.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Knowing what the Redskins owner, Dan Snyder, and his efforts to extract every penny from fans, I doubt that there no strings attached to Wifi access. The Dan Snyder I know would have gotten Huawei to supply the Wifi for no cost to him and then charged fans for access. I can only assume that Snyder worked out a deal where he would profit on the access like selling the right to datamine/track each fan. That's the only way it would have been "free" for fans.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I don't think the wall is for the Chinese and Russian. It's for those pesky Mexicans.
Creimers new fitness blog.
All this hating and blacklisting, but I have yet to see any evidence which would make me support this government interference.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
Russian citizens do complain similarly about Putin. Is it also beautiful?
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
With national security at stake, it seem like this was a reasonable to distrust a Chinese state run corporation (Huawei) from directly connecting to government devices. If it were a random company from an ally nation then it might be overkill but we're talking about China which has a ongoing effort to hack US interests.
You would have to be ignorant of history of just plain gullible to think nothing is wrong with this situation.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
it says that the feds are trying to block them everywhere. That is not true. just trying to block them in nations which we consider allies and they have access to sensitive data. If these are nations that we are not really allies with and do not share any sensitive/classified data with, we do not care.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
They also tend to get arrested, and sometimes poisoned.
Not to mention shot.
This is not some kind of a game where we joke about the onus on proof being required from the accuser. This is about something much bigger and more serious. You don't give a foreign hostile adversary control over public wife, especially when they've been prvoen to be nefarious. That's the kind of proof you should be focussing on. This is not a Trump thing.
Russian citizens do complain similarly about Putin. Is it also beautiful?
That they get thrown in jail for doing it is not so beautiful but that they're brave enough to do it anyway is.
Is that like a football field but for competitive package delivery?
Not for complaining on a webforum.
Otherwise Russia would have overtaken the US on the number of incarcerated people long ago.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Fuck state state sponsored bullshit
You could try telling Russia and other non allies...But guess what, they will tell you to GFY. Only allies will listen to you obviously, so you only bother telling your puppets to do your bidding. Not your enemies...
Saudi Arabia anyone? Aren't they America's closest allies in the Mid East? Look what happens if you criticize their leader?
Of course it's only bad if China or Russia do it.
Better to drone strike people you don't like American style, call it an 'accident' if it makes the folks back home feel better about the murdering.
Plenty of Americans get shot too, and they don't even have to complain about the President!
Not the average person, who are free to let off steam just like in the west. Things are worse if you're popular, famous or such and criticize Putin, which makes Trump envious as in America there are fewer loopholes in the 1st Amendment currently, but with all the activist judges being appointed to the Supreme Court, the types of speech that aren't protected is sure to grow beyond the national security, breaking sanctions and think of the children loopholes.
At least Russians are more free then ever, whereas here in the west, things are going backwards when it comes to freedom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
Let's just trade the proprietary data of the state of Washington and all that ties into for free Wi-Fi. Sports fans are easily the worst of the worst when it comes to computer security, and often spread over many walks of life from executives down through stock boys. So basically what got rejected was "let's hand over all the sensitive data given to our nation's biggest idiots to our nation's largest competitor." Not seeing the issue, in fact, the WSJ should probably just be locked away for treason for even trying to "bring attention" to this nonsense in an attempt to rally their base against the corporations who called out the plot.
They lied.
Russians have greater freedom of speech than most American college students thanks to left wing college presidents. But I'm sure that doesn't upset people like you.
An anonymous "government security advisor"
Definitely not an NSA spook who had some intel.
They manage to turn it off and you trust iPhones...
Looks like you are missing a braincell, or 2.
Some of them also seem to just sort of vanish :L
Good thing Western countries don't do that LOL
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/world/europe/russian-journalist-killed-kiev.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya
Didn't even have to try hard to look, but you knew that already. Right, Boris?
An American and a Russian meet up for coffee and learn from each other.
American: It is a shame you don't have any freedom in Russia.
Russian: How so?
American: I have the right and freedom to stand outside our government building and shout criticisms about Trump.
Russian (confused): We have much better freedoms than that. Not only can I stand outside the Kremlin and shout criticisms about Trump, I may even get a medal for doing so.
Yes like was already explained to you. You try to block them in any place that will listen to you (ie allies).You don't try to block them everywhere because countries that aren't allies will see through your pathetic attempt to be anti-competitive, anti-capitalist, anti-China.
I dont trust the Chinese government. And they choose to do business with Iran well then it is their problem
I don't trust themeither, but I trust the American government far far less. Which has more opportunity to fuck with your life? For anyone living in any country but China, the answer is America.
But when American banks do it's all OK isn't it. None of the American executives were ever arrested...