NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has ordered a sweeping but vague ban on dealings with the Chinese owners of popular social media apps TikTok and WeChat on security grounds, a move China’s government criticized as “political manipulation.”
Wut? Grindr was owned by a Chinese company? Was that widely known, because color me surprised.
Lady G pushed for that sale.
Americans who’re tracking every click don’t want Chinese tracking any of their clicks. I’m a little tired of China being used as a copout by American businessmen, as if Google’s, Amazon’s, Apple’s, Microsoft’s and Facebook’s data handling and security procedures are any damn better.
So trump is accidentally shutting down Fortnite? That will be interesting.
Where have we heard this before?
Banning all business by U.S. companies with WeChat’s parent — if that is the case — could prove to have much farther-reaching effects than Trump may have anticipated.
“Likely he had no idea,” tech journalist Kara Swisher tweeted Thursday night.
It reads like economic sanctions, so that US persons who violate the ban can be punished?
He really wants to punish the users I bet after Tulsa.
Donnie just loves political drama and theatrical masturbation. Still no pivot!!
Users who already have the apps apparently don’t come under the order, but the app stores would no longer be able to send money to the owners for people who buy and download the apps after the order goes into effect, and any ads served by US ad brokers wouldn’t be allowed to generate revenue. This would be an interesting opening for alternate non-US app stores and ad brokers.
I hope this motivates lots of young people to register and vote for Biden.
Yeah, I was wondering how you would block an app that’s on millions of phones and computers. I guess you can’t and how you would stop people downloading it from non-US servers isn’t clear. I suppose you could block credit card payments, which has been done with offshore gambling sites.
This seems to be case. They’re having too much fun to have it all destroyed by a fat dirty old white man who lives in the WH
Get it removed from apple and Google, then people would have to jailbreak their phones, which most won’t do.
“The U.S. thinking is that anything that is Chinese is suspect,” said Andy Mok, a senior research fellow at the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing. “They’re being targeted not because of what they’ve done, but who they are.”
Using the logic of “takes one to know one”, I can’t help wonder…
Is the US fearful of TicTok leaking data to the Chinese because the US has access to US tech company data and use it to survey foreign citizens?
Looking forward to President Biden using the selfsame logic to ban FB and Twitter next year.
Blundering his way round the economy and international relations, shooting from the hip, relying on his good brain, writing EOs with no thought or concern for legality or downstream consequences, spewing nonsense and treating the whole presidency like it is a reality show during ratings sweep week - that’s our president. Real world consequences mean nothing when you no longer live in the real world.
Still think this is mostly about collecting data for the US.
NSA does not have access to TikTok’s servers. It’s a goldmine for data on young people.
Click to enlarge image to see where your data goes:
