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The U.S. government is letting American businesses work with Chinese tech giant Huawei for an additional three months, in a third delay to a ban enacted in May for national security reasons.
It is the third time the U.S. has extended a reprieve, which is meant to help ease disruption for Huawei customers. Many Internet and cellphone carriers in rural parts of the U.S. buy networking equipment from Huawei, and the temporary extension means they can keep their networks up to date.
"The Temporary General License extension will allow carriers to continue to service customers in some of the most remote areas of the United States who would otherwise be left in the dark," said Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in a statement.
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The TGL order, first posted in May of this year, had already been extended once back in August and, had it not been re-issued, would have expired at the end of the day on Monday.
According to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, the stay was necessary because a number of small, regional telcos still rely on Huawei kit for their day-to day-operations, making it necessary for some suppliers to continue to work with the Chinese company.
"The Temporary General License extension will allow carriers to continue to service customers in some of the most remote areas of the United States who would otherwise be left in the dark," Ross declared.
"The Department will continue to rigorously monitor sensitive technology exports to ensure that our innovations are not harnessed by those who would threaten our national security."
The new order will allow companies operating under the TGL to keep working with Huawei through February 16, 2020, or until the US and China can strike a trade deal to get the telecoms giant back in Uncle Sam's good graces.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 20 2019, @10:52AM (3 children)
No way. It's way too risky to do that.
Especially since they've disappeared *so many already* [pbs.org], including Chelsea Manning, Daniel Ellsberg, Samuel Morison, Lawrence Franklin, Thomas Drake, Shamai Leibowitz, Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kiriakou, James Hitselberger and Reality Winner.
All of those leakers/whisltleblowers are just *gone*! Each and every one is either in a secret prison or their destroyed remains buried near one.
But wait. Except they're not. They all were tried in Article III [wikipedia.org] courts, except Manning who was tried in a military court [wikipedia.org] under the UCMJ [wikipedia.org], as she was an active duty member of the military.
So you're just making paranoid shit up. We call stuff like that "conspiracy theories."
Yes, if Snowden were to come back to the US he would be tried and almost certainly convicted of espionage and a variety of other charges [washingtonpost.com]. Because whether we approve of his disclosures (I know I appreciate it a lot), he committed acts which are illegal under the US Code [govinfo.gov], would be tried in a US court and, if convicted, sent to a Federal prison [wikipedia.org] to serve his sentence..
But he wouldn't be "disappeared" or spirited off to a foreign prison or Gitmo [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday November 21 2019, @01:31AM (1 child)
Even Snowden realizes his court case would be a joke, a kangaroo court case, which is why he got out of the US like he did.
He gave up everything to do what he knew was right (when hired, he had to vow to uphold the constitution) and put himself into exile because he KNEW he would NOT get a fair trial.
And you don't think that if the NSA ever found where he was living in Russia that hey wouldn't just kill him or Gitmo him?
You live in a dreamland then. 'They' got to Epstein, easily, and got away with it.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday November 22 2019, @04:14PM
Here's the thing, even though what he did may have benefited the people of the United States of America. He also, broke the law to do it. Now, if he got a trial by a jury of his peers, that might swing in his favor, but it could just as easily not have. Russia isn't so bad a place to live, especially when you compare it to prison.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Pav on Thursday November 21 2019, @10:05PM
The fact that we even have Wikileaks shows how the western world is moving in an undemocratic direction. Ways of secretly communicating only become essential as democracy closes down, which people who have experience under dictatorships know all too well. Even Australian has "rhyming slang", which is a cultural fossil from an undemocratic time in its history. Rhyming slang started as a way to easily remember code words to keep conversations private during the time the country was a penal colony.
The persecution of whistleblowers disempowers voters from making informed decisions at the ballot box and makes our societies less democratic and more authoritarian. Turing the media into an intelligence agency propaganda arm (which has been done) does the same. BTW, legistlation was passed to make it legal for intelligence agencies to use propaganda on US citizens. Cheering this stuff on just means you don't realise what it will mean for you to become voiceless - even if you think you're a shark you'll be mugged by bigger sharks, and noone will know.