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TikTok Announces Deal With Oracle and Walmart, Trump Approves
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Facebook and Google are not banned in China. Facebook just hasn't entered their market yet, while Google left in 2014.
I don't care what Trump does at this point. He is too incompetent and family members have been hurt by his reckless leadership. No matter what I'm voting for the other guy. Trump could give me a billion dollars and Id use like half of it to make sure the other guy won. Sorry...but thats where we are at with 200k dead and the small business economy being in shambles.350 miles? Where are you getting that number from?
The CBP has it at approximately 321* miles (*mileage and material totals are approximate and rounded as construction activities are ongoing)
https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/border-wall-system
That number was "Last modified: September 14, 2020"
And most of it is replacement for "dilapidated or outdated designs," not a new wall.
Border Wall progress: What’s been built so far?
One of President Trump’s central 2016 campaign promises was to build a wall at the southern border. That effort is now well underway, with his administration aiming to have completed 450 miles by the end of 2020.www.foxnews.com
As of late-June, 216 miles of new primary and secondary border wall have been built since January 2017.Of that, most is in place of what CBP calls dilapidated or outdated designs. An additional 339 miles is under construction, and 183 miles in pre-construction. In construction, 311 thousand tons of steel have been used and 458 thousand cubic yards of concrete have been used.
or maybe it's because those people who were crossing the U.S. Mexico border decided to stop because the U.S. has a high coronavirus infection and death rate?
That’s because of lockdowns in democrat cities, not trump.
Some places are thriving now.
I don't know who your sources are and where the data is coming from.
You're telling us your sources are more accurate than the government?
As you overlooked the last link, dated January. You probably overlooked the sources coming from the govt in this link too.
Oracle and Walmart? How random.
Either way, they only own a 20% stake in the company, and just because the data is stored in the US doesn’t mean anything.
This entire endeavor had absolutely nothing to do with national security, it was just Trump creating a problem where there really was none.
And either way, our president shouldn’t have any say in this at all. That’s why we have the NSA and the FBI, they are in charge of our national security. It’s just sad that one of the most powerful men in the world has spent so much of the last 3 months waisting time and resources on this non-problem.
There was very little evidence that the Chinese government was using any of this data, and even if they were, it wouldn’t be very useful.
And if anyone knows anything about technology, no matter where your data is stored, it’s not safe. The Chinese government might be spying on you, the Russian government might be spying on you, and the US government might be spying on you.
I mean hell, Facebook is a bigger security risk than this was. They were actually found to be involved in meddling in the 2016 election with the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The only thing that TikTok was involved in was letting teenagers spam trumps rally tickets.
It’s just sad to see the US become more and more like China every year.
“If it’s not American, it doesn’t belong here” is absolutely not the direction we should be headed towards. We have an open market for a reason
Either way, they only own a 20% stake in the company, and just because the data is stored in the US doesn’t mean anything.
This entire endeavor had absolutely nothing to do with national security, it was just Trump creating a problem where there really was none.
And either way, our president shouldn’t have any say in this at all. That’s why we have the NSA and the FBI, they are in charge of our national security. It’s just sad that one of the most powerful men in the world has spent so much of the last 3 months waisting time and resources on this non-problem.
There was very little evidence that the Chinese government was using any of this data, and even if they were, it wouldn’t be very useful.
And if anyone knows anything about technology, no matter where your data is stored, it’s not safe. The Chinese government might be spying on you, the Russian government might be spying on you, and the US government might be spying on you.
I mean hell, Facebook is a bigger security risk than this was. They were actually found to be involved in meddling in the 2016 election with the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The only thing that TikTok was involved in was letting teenagers spam trumps rally tickets.
It’s just sad to see the US become more and more like China every year.
“If it’s not American, it doesn’t belong here” is absolutely not the direction we should be headed towards. We have an open market for a reason
Polls are useless. The only predictors worth any weight are gambling odds.
I'm not even going to comment on the rest.
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I agree, it's probably all for show, but don't underestimate the abilities of big corps to hire lots of people for no apparent reason.
The majority of the wall is where border has already been. It’s no more effective than using a pillow to protect yourself from an oncoming train. In other words, the wall is absolutely useless when it comes to border security
Vine was a success that got acquired then essentially shut down.
There was also YikYak, which the founders screwed up by essentially turning it into Twitter. They tried to undo it but were too late. Had some fun times while it lasted.
Snapchat stuck to their guns and survived despite an awful app update.
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Polls are only useful when they are right. Which none of them were, except for LA Times and Rasmussen.
They have to be consistently right. A coin toss yields good advice half the time.
About those walls, they're expensive to build but even more expensive to guard and maintain.
Are you able to access any of the above services from within China ?
The president "approving" this makes it feel like we are living in an authoritarian country. Lots of things like this happened when I was living in the UAE.
The answer is no, and the history of Google in China is outlined here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China
Chinese government hacked some Gmail accounts to obtain info on a foreign anti-Chinese-govt activist, Google responded by moving hosting to Hong Kong and removing the censorship since it wasn't required to censor there, China responded by blocking Google, Google left... Facebook didn't even try. But I encourage you not to take my word for it.
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Not without VPN, but then again, I also can't access many American newspapers and sites that don't want to comply with GDPR here in Europe.
I don't know if you are aware of it, but most Chinese know how to 翻墙 and access such sites. Just anyone doing business with Europe or the US have Facebook and Twitter accounts. It is blocked the same way The pirate bay or 4chan are blocked in many places.
I don't know if you are aware of it, but most Chinese know how to 翻墙 and access such sites. Just anyone doing business with Europe or the US have Facebook and Twitter accounts. It is blocked the same way The pirate bay or 4chan are blocked in many places.