{"id":1075441,"date":"2021-12-02T05:14:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T10:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1075441"},"modified":"2021-12-02T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T10:14:08","slug":"report-authoritarian-governments-use-huawei-technology-to-censor-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-authoritarian-governments-use-huawei-technology-to-censor-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Authoritarian Governments Use Huawei Technology To Censor Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-authoritarian-governments-use-huawei-technology-to-censor-journalists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1075441&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.193832599119\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Report finds 17 countries use Chinese telecom giant&#8217;s hardware for censorship<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2020-01-29T105856Z_1_LYNXMPEG0S0UC_RTROPTP_4_BRITAIN-USA-HUAWEI-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Huawei logo is seen on a communications device in London, Britain\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2020-01-29T105856Z_1_LYNXMPEG0S0UC_RTROPTP_4_BRITAIN-USA-HUAWEI.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-29T105856Z_1_LYNXMPEG0S0UC_RTROPTP_4_BRITAIN-USA-HUAWEI-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tReuters\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/santi-ruiz\/\" title=\"Posts by Santi Ruiz\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Santi Ruiz<\/a> \u2022 December 2, 2021 4:59 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"68.235918972332\">\n<p>Authoritarian governments use Huawei&#8217;s technology to censor journalists, according to an internet freedom watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Top10VPN determined that 17 of the 69 countries studied use the Chinese telecom giant&#8217;s hardware to enforce censorship laws. Cuba uses Huawei&#8217;s &#8220;middlebox&#8221; devices to censor stories that criticize the country&#8217;s communist regime. In Burundi, the government blocks media outlets that have criticized the president. Fifteen other countries use Huawei hardware specifically to censor news, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10vpn.com\/assets\/2021\/07\/Chinas-Surveillance-State.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> found.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei is deeply embedded in internet networks across the world, particularly in countries with close economic ties to China. Huawei&#8217;s founder is a member of the Chinese Communist Party. Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China has pushed to integrate technology from state-backed companies like Huawei into foreign networks. Huawei&#8217;s involvement in censorship regimes suggests China is finding common ground with authoritarians across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/2021\/11\/how-chinas-huawei-technology-is-being-used-to-censor-news-halfway-across-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with the Committee to Protect Journalists, report authors Valentin Weber and Vasilis Ververis warn that Huawei&#8217;s tools could also be used to violate user privacy. The pair said it is unclear where user data are sent after they reach Huawei middleboxes. But Ververis, a cybersecurity researcher at Oxford, said he &#8220;would not be surprised if that data was being sold or analyzed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A comparison of this report with Weber&#8217;s 2019 report found that 9 of the 17 countries that use Huawei tools to censor news have adopted them since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei has become a political flashpoint in the United States. Lawmakers worry that allowing the company to operate on American soil could give the Chinese government access to U.S. citizens&#8217; data. Both the Trump and Biden administrations placed Huawei on a blacklist.<\/p>\n<p>Financial <a href=\"https:\/\/lda.senate.gov\/filings\/public\/filing\/dc7fd4dd-68c3-4f5c-ae2a-0a3d4541999a\/print\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disclosures<\/a> show that Huawei has since August paid Democratic consultant Tony Podesta $500,000 to rehabilitate the company&#8217;s image in Washington.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Report finds 17 countries use Chinese telecom giant&#8217;s hardware for censorship  Reuters  Santi Ruiz \u2022 December 2, 2021 4:59 am Authoritarian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}