I'm fairly sure he'll have done well out of this presidency...
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I'm fairly sure he'll have done well out of this presidency...
And when does the US get what it deserves for spying on its people and the rest of the world?
Well, it will go one of 2 ways... Had any US presidents prosecuted after their term in office?
1) someone else who quotes me says Trump is a billionaire.
2) Yeah, but that alone is not going to determine whether he will lead USA four more years or not. He still has millions of hard core fans.
Trump is the best president the US could have. You CCP propaganda obviously hated him so much coz he stand with people, freedom and universal value. "94% of Chinese support their government"? Right. IN YOUR DREAM.
Oh btw, I've BEEN in China since I was born !
I really don't care, since I am in Eastern Europe and we all know each other here.
How is the existence of WeChat a matter of national security? What evidence do you have to support this theory?
The CCP can probably get to any app data that is stored in the country as do other countries’s spy agencies in their territories. Most mobile phone carriers worldwide can track their customers. There is nothing that stands out here other than the wish to hurt China by impacting a successful app.
Someone mess up by putting finger in the you know where spot.
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It’s a matter of national security because the Chinese government uses it to spy on people. How much time would you and your family spend in a “re-education” camp if you spoke out against your dear leader?
Anything in China is probably controlled but that doesn’t affect American national security one bit.
If you are against the regime you won’t be making any waves on their controlled version of the Internet full stop.
If you are living outside of China you know the regime will grab you anyway in case you try to cross the border.
Again not a matter of any national security other than maybe the one of Chinese citizens.
Anybody not conforming in China can find themselves in one of their prison camps. Having a certain religion is all it takes to become camp material. No wechat needed.
It it of course a targeted approach to get to China’s most used app in the Hope they would somehow suffer from this. Meanwhile the spy agencies in other countries have probably exactly the same technical abilities.
Exactly, what Edward Snowden has explained and got in serious trouble for. During a Joe Rogan / Snowden episode, he goes to explain how it has been happening way WAY before smartphones, how AT&T since the beginnings has records of any phone call made, made even easier by cell phones since they have unique identifiers (needed to be able to plug a call from one user to another) which is tied to a phone plan with an user who is tied to a credit card or bank account information, i.e. a lot of information accessible right there. I can’t remember properly this part, but all this information is stored on storage and servers some of them even what is now Amazon servers... there’s no hiding really except deciding to not use technology.
On following posts and info I think I understood that the ban is also for any ISP and US networking server that handles, store or relays any data related to WeChat services. i.e. if I send a message from a WeChat app instance (let’s say from a sideloaded installation on a Samsung Android phone) the data service provider would just fail it and not forward it.
This all exposes quite a lot of things on the technology landscape we live in doesn’t it?
PS: service providers do have access to what, who, where and when data gets transmitted. That’s how they can give infinite data services for specific things like spotify, Apple Music, netflix etc and not count it towards data plan limits for those applications.