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AFAIK this would not be news for EU telecoms : they are being operated by Chinese companies, so those have permanent access to nearly everything anyway.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/

So is that not the case for USA telecoms ?

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Well at least American telecoms are fighting them. The European MO is to not only let themselves be conquered, but they actually pay China to do it. Thankfully American online services are on Europe's side, and work harder than anyone to protect their communications. These services don't even charge Europe anything, and Europe rewards them with billions of dollars of fines for doing it. Europe also defaced our websites in an effort to tax the attention economy, and removed legal protections for open source developers.

> fighting them

That's amusing. I'll grant that US companies haven't outright surrendered, and are still at least permitted to engage in lip service on the issue. But actual "fighting"? That would mean a tech world that looks very different than what we have today, and would fatally conflict with no end of "interests" in the US.

> American online services are on Europe's side, and work harder than anyone to protect their communications

Yeah sure, except giving the NSA access and complying with the CLOUD Act.

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