The US are playing dirty again in IT, barring their competitors from the playing field: FCC Blocks Huawei, ZTE From Lucrative American Markets.

Iconoclast422 points out the ludicrous hypocrisy of the US anti-communist, pro-capitalist, semi-libertarian cheerleaders:

You got AMZN forcing it’s small business competition to close, you got AAPL blocking its competition from even entering the market at all. And they call this capitalism.

Philipat answers that what we live under now is not capitalism but fascism:

Free market capitalism died years ago, what we have now is fascism. That’s a major reason why the new generations are so unhappy; they see enormous wealth inequality and have never known the opportunities created by free market capitalism. Just as importantly, they have never known the scourge of communism.

I might argue with the term fascism, it looks more like corporate plutocracy on the surface to me.

Continue reading Whom to trust: Huawei or the NSA? at uncoy.

There was a very good chance that Corbyn could have come to power some time in the last seven years. Corbyn would have let Assange walk – albeit there’d be a reasonable fine for bail-jumping. The EU human rights law still has jurisdiction over the UK so there’s a good chance that the extradition will be tied up and unsuccessful. Based on US behaviour towards whistleblowers in the last fifteen years, there’s every reason to suspect Assange will be scapegoated and that his safety is in danger.

The reason Assange was dragged out of the Embassy this week is that the US had finally given up waiting for the exit of the UK from the EU (no deal Brexit should have taken place last week) and will have to take its chances against EU courts whose standards for human rights – for better or worse – are much higher than those of the United States or Great Britain.

Continue reading Why Julian Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy this week and not earlier at uncoy.