The United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has barred itself from authorizing the import or sale of Chinese telecoms and video surveillance products from Huawei, ZTE, Hytera Communications, Hikvision, and Dahua, on national security grounds. As it is not legal to offer such products in the US without FCC approval, […]
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The Chinese government’s problematic quest to judge online comments
This is just one incident, but as the idea of building social creditworthiness increasingly seeps into other regulations, it reveals the risks of standardizing a practice wherein the government makes moral judgments for its people. Just last week, China’s Cyberspace Administration finalized a regulation entirely dedicated to “online comments,” which […]