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Trump Plans to Ban TikTok From the U.S.
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So the question is 1) whether the information gathering is illegal and 2) whether government should take punitive action based on what it think a company may do. I am all for having a strict regulations on what info can and cannot be collected by an app. But it is a slippery slope to enforce law based on belief instead of fact. That is essentially McCarthyism.
I disliked Obama and there were many policies I agreed with. Thank yo
Conspiracy theories much? Earth is flat? We didn’t land on the moon? Stop trying to spread conspiracy theories. Or trying to make news like some news outlets do.
To quote your own statement
"You obviously do not read. You just make a blanket statement."
NOT a fan of Trump (OR Biden for that matter), but here I think Trump is doing the right thing.
NOT a BIG fan of MSFT, but here I think they are very-likely making a smart move (depending-upon the acquisition price).
NOT a BIG fan of MSFT, but here I think they are very-likely making a smart move (depending-upon the acquisition price).
I was leading a division of a US business that had developers in China. They decided to leave and started up their own company in China using IP owned by the US company - even using sales material with the original logo in place.
IP theft and government spying is par for the course in China.
Everyone crying and complaining about the move to ban TikTok based on “beliefs”, also don’t realize they don’t know everything that the administration knows but does not divulge publicly.
The same can be said everywhere for American companies. Should they all reciprocate and ban American companies?
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American system values "Due Process".
Are you saying it should be okay for China to spy on Americans?
If true, this seems to be very ****** practice. One thing I am wondering is whether Patents, trademarks etc are recognized across nations or whether there is a international agency in charge of patents recognized globally. Does US recognize a patent registered in China or vice versa? I can see the difficulty of enforcing IP protection If there is no mutual recognition.
Plus, there are very large grey area of what is considered IP theft. Historically, countries in lead of technology favor more strict IP protection while countries lacks in tech tend to be loose. US pirates lots of tech (textile manufacture tech is probably the most well known) from the U.K. back in the days. There can be vague area of what is learning and what is stealing IP. Countries tend to define these based on its own interest.
Finally, what level of IP protection should there be is complicated. India has laws that basically allow generic drug company to use pharmaceutical patents for free in India. That's how their generic drug industry is so strong. One may argue this is blatant disregard to IP but it also helps a poor country to afford drugs. One may argue that IP law/protection sometimes is used very much as a tool to suppress those currently weak in R&D.
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And this is exactly the point. Nobody knows what the administration knows to exact its measures.
Due process as in months or years to disseminate publicly.
Take a look at the movie "Dark Waters" to learn all about USA companies being nefarious to the world.
I'll say this about Trump. He is strong worded with people publicly while working out "deals" with them privately. I wouldn't be shocked if he's working out a deal for china to continue to take data from USA citizens if Trump benefits in some way. Why? Because Trump can care less about the average citizen of the USA.
Trump once tweeted “Leadership: Whatever happens, you're responsible. If it doesn't happen, you're responsible.”
Or does that only apply when someone you dislike is President?
Due process means Federal or State attorneys sue TikTok, then TikTok appears in court as a defendant. Anything that happens outside of the US legal system is authoritarian black box manipulation.
I largely agree with this assessment about president Trump. From those books from his formal advisors/cabinet members etc (these are hearsay so we should be cautious about the accuracy), it seems Trump himself takes a more pragmatic approach, sometimes in contradiction to conventional political norm. Not sure whether it is for his own interests or just his approach to dealing with political and foreign relation matters. But it does seem like he is not very ideological driven.
TikTok is my favorite app. There is a lot of good content on there! Mostly from women 18 and over. There will be a lot of pissed off people if this app is banned. Doing some quick research -
Monthly Active Users in the United States – In November 2018 TikTok reported that they had 20 million monthly active users in the United States. With the staggering growth that's occurred since then, we estimate that the current number of monthly active TikTok users in the U.S. is about 70 million. (that number is much higher now).
TikTok's user base still very closely matches that of Musical.ly. Most of its US users are young, with 25.8% aged between 18 and 24. A further 24.5% are aged 25-34, suggesting that many TikTok users have stayed with the app, despite reaching their 25th birthday.
Although nobody has ever publicly disclosed the exact purchase price Bytedance paid for Musical.ly, most pundits estimate that it was in the range of $800 million to $1 billion.
TikTok currently rakes #4 in the App Store. It has been #1.
So yeah, he could end up further behind Biden if he bans the app.
Monthly Active Users in the United States – In November 2018 TikTok reported that they had 20 million monthly active users in the United States. With the staggering growth that's occurred since then, we estimate that the current number of monthly active TikTok users in the U.S. is about 70 million. (that number is much higher now).
TikTok's user base still very closely matches that of Musical.ly. Most of its US users are young, with 25.8% aged between 18 and 24. A further 24.5% are aged 25-34, suggesting that many TikTok users have stayed with the app, despite reaching their 25th birthday.
Although nobody has ever publicly disclosed the exact purchase price Bytedance paid for Musical.ly, most pundits estimate that it was in the range of $800 million to $1 billion.
TikTok currently rakes #4 in the App Store. It has been #1.
So yeah, he could end up further behind Biden if he bans the app.
“A danger to free expression???”
Then what do ya call what they’ve been doing to Trump and his supporters this whole time???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Then what do ya call what they’ve been doing to Trump and his supporters this whole time???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You misunderstand the issue. It’s not that a company is spying, it’s that the company is an arm of a foreign Government, one that is collecting dangerous amounts of data.
That’s not how they work. They will call him racist of course.