Seriously people try reading the actual announcement and knowing literally anything about the networks. Since this is receiving so many awful hot takes by people who should know better let's hit a couple points. First, this is an aspirational plan 1/n https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-assets/

This clearly has not received Congressional funding our similar investment. Second, this says ZERO about censoring or controlling what is said. Third, read the actual details. For instance, clean apps. Chinese apps are notorious data suckers name multiples of what the normal 2/n

App gets and it all goes back to China. This is basically about pushing the standards so many of you have rightfully been calling for. Clean apps that adhere to data standards. Cloud privacy. I'm not going to get into how much US consumer and firm data has been taken to China 3/n

But it would blow your mind. China telecoms have significant operations in the US and have engaged in massive data sucking operations because of their US based operations. Blocking their ability to divert all internet traffic in the US through China is not a Great Firewall. 4/n

Furthermore, we know that China does everything from cut undersea cables to suck the data in mass where available so having a network with no Chinese involvement yes is key. Fundamentally, this really does everything people have been asking for: data standards, investment 5/n

Competing, all the stuff you people want. Seriously just try reading the announcement rather than coming up with crap hot takes that are really so cliched