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US Downloads of TikTok and WeChat to Be Banned on Sunday
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Except “all is fair in love and war” is not true. It’s just a saying.
Why not just pass a law saying no foreign company can do business in the U.S.? I mean, all’s fair, right?
Exactly. My question was a leading one, but I'm glad it's obvious to most as to why Tik Tok was singled out.
The problem with Tik Tok is they probably aren't giving the info to the US Government like other tech companies bend over backwards to do.
Also, they don't have secret meetings with Trump-like Mark Zuckerberg did.
The problem with Tik Tok has nothing to do with servers and everything to do with that fact that his base hates the Chinese (so he can rachet up the hate in his base) and that Tik Tok has not "played" ball by paying off the Trump Admin with cold hard cash in one way or another.
Certainly not Trump.
Trump Says He Avoided Punishing China Over Uighur Camps to Protect Trade Talks (Published 2020)
“Well, we were in the middle of a major trade deal,” the president said, supporting an account by his former national security adviser John R. Bolton.
... in a meeting several months later with President Xi Jinping of China, Mr. Bolton writes, “Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.”
Analysis | Bolton says Trump didn’t just ignore human rights but encouraged China’s concentration camps
Bolton paints a picture of a president unconcerned with and often downright disdainful of human rights issues.
www.washingtonpost.com
In revelations from The Washington Post and the New York Times and an excerpt of his book published by the Wall Street Journal, Bolton paints a picture of a president unconcerned with and often downright disdainful of human rights issues.
Even more remarkably, Bolton’s excerpt in the Wall Street Journal recounts several episodes in which Trump shrugged off China’s human rights abuses — and in one case even seemed to encourage perhaps the worst of them.
The most damning passage comes when Trump, in Bolton’s telling, on two occasions actually encouraged Chinese President Xi Jinping to use concentration camps for Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province:
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This is not what is being done here. No one is saying that would be fair either. What a cynical view.
That is exactly what is happening here. Nobody has explained any tangible threat to the US from these apps. Trump doesn’t like that tik tok was used to organize his embarrassment at his rally. He wants to look “tough.” There is no danger to the U.S. It’s just “ban the foreigners!”
here we go, people that don't understand the very nature of a not getting attacked or shut off by Trump is to act in a transactional way.
Sigh.
At least Mark got Dinner out of it. LOLLL!!!!!
Surprised about Mark Zuckerberg's secret meeting with Trump? Don't be | Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Facebook CEO views all politics as merely instrumental to the fortunes of his company
An eye for an eye.
Ok. So it's a bit hypocritical. But how else is the U.S. going to show that the CCP is bad if not by doing to them what they do to the U.S.?
Wow, Sarah Cooper really burned his butt. It's so hysterical...
Well, D Duck tRUMP is a wannabe dictator so there’s that. He’s only after TicTok because they screwed with his first COVID rally in June and probably Sarah Cooper, who did amazing impressions of him on TT. Also, I have no time for TT or any other social media, but it’s interesting that he picked that one app out of all the others. He’s a thin skinned mini dictator.
TT is no better than the rest of them, remember “you (personal information) are the quarry”.
How christian of you.
The best way to show someone else is bad is by setting an example of what ”good” looks like.
If this deal with Oracle goes through does 'theRealDonald' get his fee? You know the one that he hinted is due for making this happen? If so will it appear on his tax records? Yes, Yes, No. Now there is a surprise.
With the Government now investigating Tencent (and by implication Epic) this trade war has a lot of legs on it yet. I would not be surprised to see iPhone production halted for some mysterious reason.
With the Government now investigating Tencent (and by implication Epic) this trade war has a lot of legs on it yet. I would not be surprised to see iPhone production halted for some mysterious reason.
National security takes on many more aspects than where data is stored. It's been proven multiple times that social media companies have been leveraged by foreign powers to influence elections and US policy. If we are really talking about clear and present national security threats, FB is number one right now. Knowing that 12 year old Suzy enjoys dog videos is pretty far down the threat list.
False equivalencies. What is going on in China is far different from anything, real or imagined, happening here in the United States. Also, I would encourage you to take anything you learn from editorial pages of the New York Times and Washington Post with a large grain of salt. These are propaganda machines.Certainly not Trump.
Trump Says He Avoided Punishing China Over Uighur Camps to Protect Trade Talks (Published 2020)
“Well, we were in the middle of a major trade deal,” the president said, supporting an account by his former national security adviser John R. Bolton.www.nytimes.com
... in a meeting several months later with President Xi Jinping of China, Mr. Bolton writes, “Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.”
Analysis | Bolton says Trump didn’t just ignore human rights but encouraged China’s concentration camps
Bolton paints a picture of a president unconcerned with and often downright disdainful of human rights issues.
In revelations from The Washington Post and the New York Times and an excerpt of his book published by the Wall Street Journal, Bolton paints a picture of a president unconcerned with and often downright disdainful of human rights issues.
Even more remarkably, Bolton’s excerpt in the Wall Street Journal recounts several episodes in which Trump shrugged off China’s human rights abuses — and in one case even seemed to encourage perhaps the worst of them.
The most damning passage comes when Trump, in Bolton’s telling, on two occasions actually encouraged Chinese President Xi Jinping to use concentration camps for Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province:
Concentration camps and forced labor: China’s repression of the Uighurs, explained
There is more and more evidence of China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
www.vox.com
China’s 260 concentration camps are proof of pure evil
It turns out the Chinese Communist Party is bent on permanently locking up much of the Uighur Muslim population of the far-west region of Xinjiang: Satellite images show that Beijing has secretly b…
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‘They kill us here’: Survivor of Uyghur concentration camps recounts torture - The Pitt News
Tursun shared her story during a virtual event hosted by Pitt’s centers for Governance and Markets and Russian, East European and Eurasian...
Your cynicism is based on your conjecture unless you are privy to national security intelligence information. But regardless, you wrote: "Why not just pass a law saying no foreign company can do business in the U.S.? I mean, all’s fair, right?" That is literally a gross exaggeration and, again, not what is being done here. The US is acting in a very targeted fashion against one company.
I just tried to download it, and it won't download, but neither will anything else. WTH???
Is there a bug that stops people from getting apps from the, um, 'App' Store?
I just restarted, and, nothing... WTH? Updates aren't working either!
Weird! My iPhone apparently connected to a wifi AP with no internet access. Don't know where it's coming from. Sounds ominous...
Is there a bug that stops people from getting apps from the, um, 'App' Store?
I just restarted, and, nothing... WTH? Updates aren't working either!
Weird! My iPhone apparently connected to a wifi AP with no internet access. Don't know where it's coming from. Sounds ominous...
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Woooo! No more cringy videos of girls lip syncing terrible mumble rap and "dancing" like idiots.
Walmart does “business” on tiktok? Since when did tiktok become the new Facebook? I thought it was just a place for 14 year old girls to film themselves dancing.
The guy that issued this executive order is the same guy that has made america great "again" by ensuring that in 4 (VERY LONG) years it has gone back to 1960's-era-levels of civil unrest.
The same guy that even complained about last year's best picture winner because it was a Korean movie.
I could go on, but I have cancelled him and those that like him from my life (to the extent possible of course).
I trust NOTHING he says or does, nor believe that it comes from anywhere other than his "right" to defend the white supremacist AmeriKKKa that has existed since 1776, and has been kept at bay by the (multi-racial) blood of those who believe that it actually COULD be great.
Even the term "conservative" makes me sick.
They're all made of the same religio-fascist xenophobic stuff that other fools are made off, all over the world.:
From the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the Arab World, to the pseudo-socialist-egalitarian totalitarianism of Russia and China, to the European neo-Nazi idiots, to the racial-tribal-genocidal idiocy of Rwanda and South Africa, all the way to the confederate-flag-waving, science-denying, red-hat-wearing, insert-your-non-white-or-straight-here-phobes (and their non-white sympathizers) that fill the center of the US all the way to the appropriately-named White House.
Thus, this ban has NOTHING to do with National Security (even if it actually does) in his teeny-tiny little mind.
The same guy that even complained about last year's best picture winner because it was a Korean movie.
I could go on, but I have cancelled him and those that like him from my life (to the extent possible of course).
I trust NOTHING he says or does, nor believe that it comes from anywhere other than his "right" to defend the white supremacist AmeriKKKa that has existed since 1776, and has been kept at bay by the (multi-racial) blood of those who believe that it actually COULD be great.
Even the term "conservative" makes me sick.
They're all made of the same religio-fascist xenophobic stuff that other fools are made off, all over the world.:
From the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the Arab World, to the pseudo-socialist-egalitarian totalitarianism of Russia and China, to the European neo-Nazi idiots, to the racial-tribal-genocidal idiocy of Rwanda and South Africa, all the way to the confederate-flag-waving, science-denying, red-hat-wearing, insert-your-non-white-or-straight-here-phobes (and their non-white sympathizers) that fill the center of the US all the way to the appropriately-named White House.
Thus, this ban has NOTHING to do with National Security (even if it actually does) in his teeny-tiny little mind.