For anyone only reading the clickbait topic title, this is regarding a single Chinese company's phones over both private and national security issues.
It really isn't about that though.
This is literally the headline from the article:
A $229 smartphone just launched, and the US government doesn't think you should buy it
It goes on to detail the security issues, including the third bullet point which spells it out:
U.S. intelligence agencies have warned against purchasing phones from Huawei.
However, your post is "U.S. Government doesn't want citizens buying Chinese products." which is a clickbait title so deceptive that even Duckbear would blush.
TyVulpine posted...
Thats funny, considering Trumps clothes come from China.
What's funny is you didn't read anything. Especially since, among other stupid problems with your stupid post, this doesn't even have anything to do with Trump:
Last month, leaders from the CIA, FBI and NSA, and the director of national intelligence, said private citizens in the U.S. shouldn't buy phones from Chinese smartphone makers including Huawei and ZTE.
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"We're deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden to foreign governments that don't share our values to gain positions of power inside our telecommunications networks," FBI Director Chris Wray testified during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in mid-February. Wray also said that the devices give Chinese smartphone makers access or even "control" over the U.S. telecommunications system and "provides the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information" and "conduct undetected espionage."
