Jeff Bezos

[cpr]

We're going to have to give Huawei massive 5G network access for your return, aren't we?

 

[GIMH]

Sledger mate. Before you go can you post all the troll ideas you’ve held off on through fear of being banned? Would be a tragedy if you never got to post them.

Will miss you mate.

 

[andmark]

Wasn't there a weird thread on here by a Chinese person who'd got through the Great Firewall of China?

 

[sledger]

Ha, reminds me of Loko's Ten Dollar Karl post. Great.

 

[trundler]

That sounds pretty bad ass, sledger. Don't die.

 

[Spark]

Amazon/WaPo to the National Enquirer, basically:

 

[Top_Cat]

https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f

Classy stuff, this.

 

[StephenZA]

Never put it down in writing.....

And never take dick pics.....

 

[nightprowler10]

So the guy blackmailing him over dick pics is called Mr. Pecker....

 

[harsh.ag]

Who cares

Mr Pecker. Heh.

 

[MrPrez]

Yeah, I have been given a series of topics to speak on. One of which is "Government data and surveillance".

I understand I am going to be briefed to be very careful about the kinds of things I talk about during that session haha.

Off topic, and most certainly a bit late, but:

I'm curious given what I perceive to be your extensive knowledge of China, what your thoughts are on Huawei and the potential threat it poses to Western nations that accept its technologies?

Here in SA we're all-in on using Huawei, hence my curiosity.

 

[Redbacks]

'Bezos exposes Pecker'

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Tabloid gold mine

 

[sledger]

Off topic, and most certainly a bit late, but:

I'm curious given what I perceive to be your extensive knowledge of China, what your thoughts are on Huawei and the potential threat it poses to Western nations that accept its technologies?

Here in SA we're all-in on using Huawei, hence my curiosity.

I don't think the Huawei tech itself is any more invasive than the majority of Western equivalents (e.g. Google). The prob is that the data it gathers will probably end up back in China and then god knows what happens to it.

 

[Spark]

I don't think the Huawei tech itself is any more invasive than the majority of Western equivalents (e.g. Google). The prob is that the data it gathers will probably end up back in China and then god knows what happens to it.

Wouldn't one big potential long-term problem that the Chinese government "decides" that its companies are no longer allowed to carry data that is "against State interests" and hey presto entire countries see anything related to Taiwan disappear from the internet?

 

[Spikey]

would just like to say to the chinese government people who are no doubt tracking sledger that i'm not a fan of his work at all

 

[sledger]

Wouldn't one big potential long-term problem that the Chinese government "decides" that its companies are no longer allowed to carry data that is "against State interests" and hey presto entire countries see anything related to Taiwan disappear from the internet?

Yeah indeed, this sort of thing is very possible.

Generally speaking though, laws in the EU (and even the US I think) would define this sort of behaviour as anti-competitive or unlawful on some other basis, and then fine the hell out of Huawei's Western offices etc.

But it's certainly an issue.

 

[Spark]

I'd actually be very interested to see what US law would say about that scenario.

 

[sledger]

I know very little of US antitrust law, but there is quite a lot of it, and I imagine this is the sort of situation it was devised for.

 

[Burgey]

Bezos should buy Fox News, sack all the RWNJs and replace them with liberal presenters. He can afford it.