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Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the small-detour dept.

takyon writes:

Trump administration forces Facebook and Google to drop Hong Kong cable

Google and Facebook have withdrawn plans to build an undersea cable between the United States and Hong Kong after the Trump administration raised national security concerns about the proposal. On Thursday, the companies submitted a revised plan that bypasses Hong Kong but includes links to Taiwan and the Philippines that were part of the original proposal.

One of the original project's partners, Hong Kong company Pacific Light Data Communication, has been dropped.

Federal law requires a license from the Federal Communications Commission to build an undersea cable connecting the United States with a foreign country. When Google and Facebook submitted their application for an undersea cable connecting the US to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Philippines, a committee of federal agencies led by the Justice Department recommended against approving the connection to Hong Kong, citing the "current national security environment."

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Bot on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:55AM (7 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:55AM (#1045238) Journal

    lefties spinning the story in 3..2..1..

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  • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday September 02 2020, @05:19AM

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Wednesday September 02 2020, @05:19AM (#1045266) Journal

    You are safe now. See? No sea cable over there...

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  • (Score: 2) by Aegis on Wednesday September 02 2020, @02:22PM (5 children)

    by Aegis (6714) on Wednesday September 02 2020, @02:22PM (#1045381)

    Lefties are opposed to putting Muslims in Concentration Camps. What is your position on that issue?

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday September 02 2020, @05:00PM (2 children)

      by Freeman (732) on Wednesday September 02 2020, @05:00PM (#1045476) Journal

      [citation needed]

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @06:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @06:57PM (#1045543)

      He'd be ok putting them in the cages to babysit the brown children.

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday September 04 2020, @01:16PM

      by Bot (3902) on Friday September 04 2020, @01:16PM (#1046296) Journal

      Listen it's easy. Muslims are expansionist nationalists. Nazis were expansionist nationalists. What nazis deserve, muslims deserve.

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