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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.
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I'm sure Best Buy didn't sell them because they didn't consider them commercial viable. Now why aren't they commercially viable? Perhaps because the government has marked them as unsafe and open to the Chinese government for eavesdropping.
I've no idea if Huawei is Chinese spyware; maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but the thought that they might be is going to scare consumers away and put off Best Buy from providing it.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
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.
US formally accused Huawei of a crime, they ignored it. Their officer went into US legal jurisdiction in Canada, was arrested and held for trial like anyone else. The next day they arrest 2 unrelated Canadians on BS-nothing charges. They don't even specify the charges, because there are no charges yet, they haven't thought of any and nobody in China is required to do anything like a normal country of laws, it's a shit show. So now you have one person facing a trial and well-spelled formal charges, they have attorneys and make bail motions, versus China holding "hostages" essentially so they get their way in this legal fight. That's what you're defending, you treasonous faggot bitch. God I hope you find the inside of a Chinese prison some day for comparative educational purposes you shilling faggot.
Huawei has a rather documented history of sending private data back to China, they keep saying it's an accident. Fuck you, fuck them, China is a criminal enterprise without pretense. Now continue tapdancing you bitch.
Germany has outright stated that they don't believe the US as no evidence has ever been presented. Considering that US companies have actually been caught doing exactly what Huawei is accused of, but Huawei never has, I'm far more trusting of Huawei than of any American company.
It's that they US intelligence community doesn't have backdoors into the phones. Can't have the commoners keeping secrets.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
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