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

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Google and Facebook have withdrawn plans to build an undersea cable between the United States and Hong Kong after the Trump administration raised national security concerns about the proposal.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: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:58AM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:58AM (#1045239) Journal

    Well one would keep the HK server and fill it up with fake logs n' shieet, just to give the AI algos some garbage to sift through. The risk OTOH is to have some archibald buttle executed for this.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:54PM (#1045431)

    That is probably my favorite movie of all time.