Trump Admin Banning Downloads Of TikTok And WeChat | Talking Points Memo

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danablankenhorn:

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 …

I’m not sure that’s possible. I mean, seriously, what kind of respect would you show a country that had formerly elected Donald Trump, and let him serve, as its president?

It’ll be a while before we’re deserving of international respect again.

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Could anybody tell me what the penalties are for downloading it anyway? I would just like to know what law we would be violating.

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Ouch.

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Meh, this won’t stop her.

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Does trump wake up every morning trying to find new ways to piss off the majority of Americans

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I think Marky wants it.

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Laura’s pretty much right. I mean, the Failed Mail-Order Meat Salesman used to scream that Obama made America a laughingstock but doesn’t say much about it now that it’s true.

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Yes, that was hilarious.

At the time.

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When we end the 500 year long campaign of genocide against Native Americans and deal truly and honestly with the legacies of slavery (among other things), then we might have the moral high ground to stand on.

I am not suggesting that we should let China slide on Tibet or the treatment of Uighurs, but the US’s scolding on these issues rings a bit hollow and everybody in the world knows it.

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Speaking of internet fuckery-

https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1306931609241821189

Lawyers representing the U.S. at Julian Assange’s extradition trial have accepted the claim that the WikiLeaks founder was offered a presidential pardon on the condition that he would help cover up Russia’s involvement in hacking emails from the DNC

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Well, “raised”, technically. Or possibly “summoned”.

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I don’t think Trump is trying, per se, to piss off the majority of Americans. It just comes naturally to him, like vomit inducing a gag reflex.

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Yeah, they needed to find a trump lackey rich enough to buy Tik Tok, so they woke Wilber up to look through his rolodex.

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Meanwhile, President Stable Genius keeps talking on an unencrypted iPhone. So…

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Seems like this story and the Trump goes after FBI Director story should be tied together.

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IOW:
At the President’s direction, we have taken significant action to combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data, while maliciously pursuing that same data from younger people ourselves.

Seriously, it’s not about security. It’s about data from younger people they would like to have stored on American servers where they have access to everything. And they do have access to most of the data collected by Microsoft, FB, Google and etc.
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Maybe NSA can’t sweep up information like they used to, but if they want something, they’ll get it.

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He, or his minions turned over data on protestors to the Chinese Govt, that is why they caught them … what is to stop him from turning your data over to DJT or Barr to misuse?

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Not his conscience, that’s for sure.

I suppose it depends on whether he makes more money by trading the data or by not handing it over.

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How long until the Dipshit in Chief figures out that his favorite app is just as dangerous?

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