WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will ban the use of WeChat Sunday to “safeguard the national security of the United States.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1332787
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1332787
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WeChat has been unavailable through the app stores for months. I tried downloading it, because my son knows Mandarin, and couldn’t register it.
This whole thing is stupid, and just one of many policies to be undone immediately on January 21. A negotiation with China on our future relationship is in order, based on mutual respect and reciprocity, and an acknowledgement of China’s power and responsibility. But it should be a negotiation. The world can’t afford another Cold War.
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Maybe this will help get out the kids’ votes.
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Revenge on Sarah Cooper.
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“Things have been so quiet and peaceful. We should shake things up by attacking TikTok again.”
And this will help our national security? Has the Pentagon been posting dance videos?
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Someone woke Wilbur Ross for this?
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Um, are they going to also stop FB from collecting our data?
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That’s funny. Zuckerberg doesn’t look Chinese.
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It’s still alive???
Gosh I’m shocked about that!!!
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Occam’s razor indeed
You need not look any deeper than revenge
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Its amazing how things work,tell someone don’t do this or use that.Especially younger people and we all know the first thing they do is the opposite of what was told to them.
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“At the President’s direction, we have taken significant action to combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data, while promoting our national values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of U.S. laws and regulations,”
Who’s Wilbur talking about here? Certainly isn’t the Trump administration.
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“Mutual respect”?
Tell that to the Uigars and Tibetans.
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TikTok is nothing. Every social media platform provides an essential one-stop-shop for information on every person who uses one. People simply volunteer information in a way that would make J. Edgar Hoover absolutely giddy.
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Yes, and the Chinese government is also rattling sabers (or sending gunboats) all over South-east Asia.
Plus, in what is essentially a blackmail racket, it funds corrupt regimes in the area with no thought for those under the boot.
And so on.
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As opposed to the Trump Campaign’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data?
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National security my ass. TicTok was blamed for the poor showing at Trump’s Tulsa rally and that’s what’s behind this.
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It is also election season. He has to look like he is doing something.
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Yup. Banning stuff. Freedom baby!!!
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