Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”
by sneak on Monday March 04, 2013 @04:14PM
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Uhh, okay.
Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”
by dyno12345 on Monday March 04, 2013 @05:48PM
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That also has nothing to do with the "military-industrial complex"
In order for that to fit the analogy, AT&T would have to have lobbied the government to create that so it could profit from it.
Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”
by techpeace on Monday March 04, 2013 @06:02PM
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The entire reason this was controversial was specifically because we consider telecommunications working hand-in-hand with intelligence agencies to be a violation of our basic freedoms. Had this been set up in a foreign country by KBR, it would fit within the concept of the "military industrial complex."
The phrase does not apply to any industry, it refers specifically to the defense industry, of which telecoms are not a part. Otherwise, we could plausibly say that any sufficiently large business in the US is part of the "military-industrial complex," which is not the case.
So it has little, if anything, to do with the military-industrial complex.