<nettime> How the East Was Won, starring Cisco Stewart & Huawei Wayne

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

[John Ford's 1962 classic has rough sketches of concession wars between 
railroad builders on the virgin land.]
The current Huawei/Cisco wars being fought in Europe, directly fueled by 
governments and involving heads of state, have little to do with 
equipment sales/profits or 'security'. No one gives a flying f*ck about 
that.
They have everything to do with data siphoning concessions: will it be 
done by Chinese or Americans?
Europe's data industry has been expertly amputated, so like a legless 
cripple it has to buy limbs somewhere, and there are two options. 
Europe's traffic will be siphoned in its entirety, everyone in the know 
is cool with that (as they have no choice.) Except maybe hapless populus 
- anyone counting on stuff like GDPR is a complete idiot (would you 
trust cat's promise not to eat bacon?)
The cripple will buy its limbs in one of these shops, and the rest is 
described, do stay with film, in Nick Park's 1993 The Wrong Trousers.
The real depravity of European politicians, committees, non-profits and 
assorted parasites, is reflected in the fact that they don't mention the 
3rd option: buy nothing. Not going with the Program is unthinkable, and 
obviously the right thing to do.


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