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Trump administration is thinking about nationalizing 5G mobile network
cnbc ^

Posted on 01/29/2018 5:48:42 AM PST by BenLurkin

The reason for even considering nationalization of part of the system is that China "has achieved a dominant position in the manufacture and operation of network infrastructure" and it's "the dominant malicious actor in the Information Domain," the document said, according to Axios.

Reuters reported that a senior administration official on Sunday said that the government wants to build a secure 5G network and it'll have to work with the industry to figure out the best way to do it.

"We want to build a network so the Chinese can't listen to your calls," the official told Reuters

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 5g; 5gmobile; nationalizing; network; redchina; trump5g
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1 posted on 01/29/2018 5:48:42 AM PST by BenLurkin
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See also: http://www.zdnet.com/article/alleged-trump-administration-docs-show-military-weapons-a-5g-concern/


2 posted on 01/29/2018 5:49:20 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Anonymous sources = fake news.

Period.


3 posted on 01/29/2018 5:51:15 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: BenLurkin

Axios has less credibility than CNN.


4 posted on 01/29/2018 5:52:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: BenLurkin

“”We want to build a network so the Chinese can’t listen to your calls,” the official told Reuters”

Good luck with that.

This is an old Military table-hitting thing. When they found out that all of this US tech is totally Chinese they got scared. And with good reason.

A mil report stated that the saturation of questionable and outright covert spy tech in our everyday electronics (In use by DoD) . It’s scary and a lot of people began to understand the next war, and how we were losing, or did lose.

When it comes to government abuses of the system, it’s already been proven that they abuse the private system anyway so no changes there.

The difference is that in a few years the government will have a tool so powerful that it will make our actual bullets obsolete. Everything will be tied into 5G. Everything.


5 posted on 01/29/2018 5:53:39 AM PST by Celerity
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To: BenLurkin

The website reporting this is a left-wing fake news site.

#releasethememo


6 posted on 01/29/2018 5:54:26 AM PST by stockpirate (TYRANNY IS THY NAME REBELLION IS OUR ANSWER. HANG THEM ALL!)
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To: Blueflag

Ping


7 posted on 01/29/2018 5:55:38 AM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t care if the Chinese listen to my calls or read my texts. Surely they can’t be that bored.


8 posted on 01/29/2018 5:56:40 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: BenLurkin

Wanting to build is not necessarily the same thing as wanting to nationalize. It should be noted that we are continually reminded that the government isn’t all that good at running things and probably shouldn’t be in the communications business, IMHO.


9 posted on 01/29/2018 5:56:44 AM PST by pt17
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To: Celerity

5G will be the IOP (Internet of People).


10 posted on 01/29/2018 5:56:56 AM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: BenLurkin

Although I seriously doubt this story, nationalizing ANYTHING is a very, very bad idea. The US Government hasn’t been all that successful in its cyber-security endeavors; witness the multiple huge data breaches that have been reported in the media and consider the fact that not all of them have been acknowledged.

As I often tell people, “Government is what you do instead of common sense.”


11 posted on 01/29/2018 6:00:01 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: BenLurkin
We want to build a network so the Chinese can't listen to your calls

But so that a politicized FBI and NSA can.

12 posted on 01/29/2018 6:02:20 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: stockpirate

“The website reporting this is a left-wing fake news site.”
Heh, if it’s left-wing, it is by definition fake news.


13 posted on 01/29/2018 6:04:17 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: BenLurkin

Related with 94 comments:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3626918/posts


14 posted on 01/29/2018 6:07:00 AM PST by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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To: BenLurkin

I have a chinese made phone. I don’t care if the chinese listen to my calls, as long as they don’t share it with anyone else.

The US is entity that worries me - I don’t want my government spying on citizens just because they can, keeping files on each person. That is how genocides can happen once the wrong group is in power and has access to those tools. What obola did is just the beginning of the harm that could be done.


15 posted on 01/29/2018 6:07:32 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: pt17
It should be noted that we are continually reminded that the government isn’t all that good at running things and probably shouldn’t be in the communications business, IMHO.

I agree in general - but Internet connectivity is starting to achieve utility status, in the same way that electricity or running water are. We wouldn't countenance having other utilities subject to tampering or disabling by a foreign government - why do so for Internet connectivity?
16 posted on 01/29/2018 6:08:36 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: BenLurkin

Fake News from Fake News, imagine that.


17 posted on 01/29/2018 6:12:47 AM PST by tiki
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To: BenLurkin
Reuters reported that a senior administration official on Sunday said that...

Ah, an unnamed source. It could be the janitor for all we know.
18 posted on 01/29/2018 6:16:59 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: House Atreides

Just ignore this entire thread. ;-)


19 posted on 01/29/2018 6:18:26 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: BenLurkin

Considering that many of the big media companies are openly talking about blocking people and groups they disagree with, I can see this.

Utility companies have to hook up to people they don’t like. Treat the net like a utility


20 posted on 01/29/2018 6:22:12 AM PST by redgolum
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