US proposes a five-part “Clean Network” plan to curb potential national security risks from China, including banning “untrusted” Chinese apps from US app stores
U.S. sort-of-firewall goes up. Chinese telcos, cloud providers are blocked. Chinese apps are kicked out of app stores. Submarine data traffic will get a look. U.S. app makers are instructed not to put apps on Huawei's store. 1/2 https://www.state.gov/...
the internet's economy is *specifically built* to cross international lines. banning “chinese apps” like tiktok or shifting their ownership won't do shit to keep our data “safe.” if anything, it'll make things worse i did my best to break down why: https://gizmodo.com/...
the idea that the United States has any sort of moral authority when it comes to condemning China's internet is absolutely insane. There is nothing “clean” about us and there never has been https://theintercept.com/...
There's plenty of American hypocrisy but moral equivalence is silly. On the Chinese internet that Intercept piece would be taken down and the author put in jail. Unless you think that's the same as not being in jail these are not moral equivalents. https://twitter.com/...
So did the US just announce it is building a great firewall? Announcing the Expansion of the Clean Network to Safeguard America's Assets - United States Department of State https://www.state.gov/...
The absurdity of this situation is that it's the “hawks” who are effectively pushing to make Chinese standards on internet policy globally accepted. The global standard should be a free and open internet. We're going in the opposite direction now. https://twitter.com/...