FCC dives in to sink Chinese grip on undersea internet cables Uncle Sam has decided it's time to free US-connected undersea cables from Chinese influence. FCC chairman Brendan Carr announced on Wednesday that the Commission would vote next month on a rule that will not only secure undersea cables from America's international adversaries, but also pump cash into a buildout of submarine …
You fuckwit.
China, Russia, Iran, North Korea etc pissing with international undersea cables.
United States, Israel, EU, NATO etc trying to run undersea cables to everybody's benefit.
That you do not get it, and furthermore do not even get that pissing in el Reg's pocket is utterly counterproductive, makes you the true laughing-stock.
Your only saving grace would be to come out as a Putin-controlled AI. Such blunders would then be more forgivable.
"The USA is not our friend."
I've got loads of mates in the USofA, I've tried to stop them from apologizing for Trump. There is no need, its just a phase.
If T2 does manage to become T3 (or something similar) then things will become very worrying indeed - that's when you know that everything, including the Constitution has been thrown out of the window.
So, for now, we hunker down and wait for that particular bit of the world to settle down.
VoiceOfTruth You really are hilarious.
"Everybody's benefit? You are talking out of your arse. The USA is not our friend. Tariffs, motherfucker, have you heard of them?" is the grossest non sequitur (look it up, dear child) I have met this year. International cables are not national tariffs. Yeah? No? Oh dear. :p
Shepilov, you incompetent troll.
Here at our research agency for the internet, our goal is to promote division between Trump and the "woke left". That's part of your job, remember?
How does that work if your sock puppet tells the Americans that your sympathies lie with Russia?
> The Russians won. You'd think we would be grateful. I know I am.
I'd call you dumber than a retarded lobotomized piece of lichen, but that would be insulting to retarded lobotomized pieces of lichen.
Yours, Ilya Abramovich.
This article is written very much from the POV of America being on the 'right' side. The poor old USA, with all these adversaries. Where did they come from? Something must be done.
Meanwhile, the USA is making more adversaries every day. More tariffs = less friends, and don't pretend otherwise.
Maybe it really will be the case soon of the whole world vs the USA. Maybe we don't want INTERNATIONAL undersea cables under American influence or control. Did Brandon Vigliarolo ever consider that?
What the world needs is less USA.
The world certainly needs a lot less Trump.
That said, cutting undersea cables isn't just happening to the US, look at the Baltic Sea, which AFAIK is not part of the US. It's not even, I think, near Greenland, the putative 52nd state.
It's a challenge to everyone and just because this is the US FCC talking about it here doesn't make it any less real. You wouldn't want something to happen to your TikTok dancing hamster vids, would you?
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The US can dictate legislation out to 12 miles from their coastline. Other than that, it is international waters and US law does not apply.
There is an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) out to 200 miles from the coast. - UNCLOS explicitly states that all States, whether coastal or land-locked, enjoy the freedom of laying submarine cables and pipelines in the EEZ. This is derived from the high seas freedoms, which largely apply in the EEZ as long as they are not incompatible with the coastal state's specific EEZ rights. And undersea cables do not conflict.
Nice try.
Any country is free to buy and sell oil in any currency.
Feel free to look up the ones that decided they no longer wanted the PetroDollar.
Look how Brazil is being bullied by the USA .
Look what happens when private contractors murder people in other countries
Laws mean jack shit when you have the largest military in the world.
"The US can dictate legislation out to 12 miles from their coastline. Other than that, it is international waters and US law does not apply."
I cannot see any possible reason why you would lay an undersea cable 13 miles off the coast of Hawaii or Oregon unless you were planning on laying it to Hawaii or Oregon. So they just mean that they will blanket deny any cable construction that terminates in the US from these groups.
Their coastline, or the coastline of the "at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_military_installations
If you squint right, and I believe I'm squinting correctly, count how many undersea cables don't come anywhere near a USA military installation.
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