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Team Telecom, a shadowy US national security unit tasked with protecting America's telecommunications systems, is delaying plans by Google, Facebook and other tech companies for the next generation of international fiber optic cables.
Team Telecom comprises representatives from the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice (including the FBI), who assess foreign investments in American telecom infrastructure, with a focus on cybersecurity and surveillance vulnerabilities.
Team Telecom works at a notoriously sluggish pace, taking over seven years to decide that letting China Mobile operate in the US would "raise substantial and serious national security and law enforcement risks," for instance. And while Team Telecom is working, applications are stalled at the FCC.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/18/how-us-national-security-agencies-hold-the-internet-hostage/
(Score: 1) by hwertz on Friday July 26 2019, @04:32PM
You're not missing anything. Don't bother with the VPN. I'm in the States, and you get about 1/2 paragraph (with same amount of info as the summary here on soylentnews). If you scroll past that, it almost immediately jumps to the techcrunch.com home page. After about the 3rd try with the back button, I finally saw (before it jumped to techcrunch.com AGAIN) that it was popping up a notice saying I needed to subscribe to read that article first. (Note to whoever at techcrunch: if you want people to read your subscription notice, you can't jump off the page to the home page like that.)