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U.S. to start blocking TikTok and WeChat downloads Sunday

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Tik tok is unique. If it can be easily replaced, US doesn't need to ban it.
Nothing is unique. Its just a stupid video app. And yes banning it helps to replace it. Apps grow their market by power law. First movers have a major advantage. TikTok had it, now it disappears. Good thing is that now user know the usecase and want it, so all a competitor needs to do is to provide that and that will fill the space vacated by TikTok.

TikTok spent money to market its usecase, that money and marketing will help its competitor now that it has to exit the scene in US.
 
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commie lovers are complaining like facebook, youtube etc is not banned in their own CCP land.

Tiktok must be banned because it doesnt censor vulgar content, it only censors content which goes against CCP propaganda, this is really bad for the future generation

tiktok has stopped operating in honhkong because of their own commie regime as well.

Pakistan will hopefully ban this as US is doing.

dunno what happened to vines though, it was the one which brought this idea in the first place?

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Who is going to use VPN for tiktok or wechat and how is it going to work,I don't know it.
If this guy expects all TikTok customers to actually buy and set up a VPN then he is in for big surprise. Not to mention, how will anyone get the app in the first place.
 
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All major powers need fire walls. Small countries don't need fire walls because they have already lost their internet sovereignties.

The western "firewall" is social engineering, and thousand government trolls everywhere.

I think all this mess is not about forbid a service, it's about know how the reaction of people to a forbid a service.

If China ban a web/app, they dont publish and talk about it every week, they just do it and that's all.

But this is another thing, it's a constant flux of news about the topic, one and another time.
 
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LOL, anything can become a threat to US “National Security”,including any butterflies in Amazon rainforest.
Are you describing your China here where anything HAVE become a threat to the Party? :lol:
 
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China’s unreliable entities list will have a few Murican members soon.
 
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TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday


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TikTok will be removed from US app stores from midnight on Sunday as Washington implements executive orders from President Donald Trump that also target WeChat, a Chinese social media app. The US commerce department, which announced the move on Friday, stopped short of forcing Apple and Google to remove the Chinese versions of TikTok and WeChat from their app stores in China. Wilbur Ross, US commerce secretary, said the administration had taken “significant action to combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data” by implementing the orders. The imminent removals come as Oracle and ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, continue talks with the administration to resolve its concerns over the video app. Any deal will also need approval from China. Oracle and ByteDance have submitted a proposal that would spin out TikTok’s global business into a new US company that would have an all-American board and a security committee headed by someone with government security clearances. The new company would initially be majority owned by ByteDance, but would seek to list publicly in the US. Mr Trump this week raised concerns about continuing Chinese ownership of the app, while some lawmakers, including Marco Rubio, an influential Republican senator, said the deal would let ByteDance keep control of the algorithm that picks which videos to show to each user. Asked about the negotiations surrounding TikTok, Mr Trump on Friday said there were some “great options” but stressed that it was essential that any deal did not undermine US national security when it came to China. “I am not going to do anything to jeopardise security,” Mr Trump said. He called TikTok an “amazing company” and said a deal could happen soon without providing detail: “It could go very, very fast.” Recommended FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen ByteDance pledges TikTok IPO, Mulvaney on Brexit, Biden tries to win with Latino voters The removal of TikTok and WeChat from US app stores implements two executive orders issued last month by Mr Trump, which said US companies would be barred from dealing with them from September 20. The president later issued a third order that gave ByteDance until November 12 to divest its interests in TikTok in the US. TikTok on Friday said it opposed the move and would “challenge the unjust executive order, which was enacted without due process and threatens to deprive the American people and small businesses across the US of a significant platform for both a voice and livelihoods”. Tencent, the Chinese company that owns WeChat, said the decision was “unfortunate”. But it said it would “continue to discuss with the government and other stakeholders in the US ways to achieve a long-term solution.” Speaking on Fox Business, Mr Ross said WeChat would effectively be shut down immediately in the US. The move banned US companies that provide critical services to the app — which also allows users to transfer money and make payments — from dealing with WeChat. Mr Ross and commerce department officials said TikTok users in the US would suffer a gradual degradation of service — due to a ban on updates or patches — but could use the app until November 12. TikTok would be shut down on that date in the event that ByteDance had not come up with a solution that satisfied the US government. Recommended LexTikTok Inc TikTok/Oracle: Inartful dodge Premium One senior commerce department official dismissed suggestions that November 12 had been chosen because it was after the US election. Some Trump campaign officials had raised concerns that banning TikTok would hurt the president with younger Americans. “It has absolutely nothing to do with the election,” said the official. Asked if the Trump administration had considered restrictions that would have forced Apple and Google to remove TikTok from app stores in other countries, such as Japan, the UK, or Australia, the official said they had decided to focus on the US. “We certainly took a very broad look at what could be done. But the president’s intention is to protect American privacy and the security of the US,” he said. “Our actions are specifically targeted to do just that.” The battle over TikTok is the latest example of the much tougher stance Mr Trump has taken against China in recent months. Some critics question why he is targeting an app such as TikTok that is largely used by teenagers, but experts said that the data the app gathered on its users threatened US security. “Big data is the core of intelligence now,” said James Lewis, a cyber expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “This is the most intense espionage campaign against the US since the Reagan administration. We are engaged in an intense espionage contest — a spy war — with China.” Mr Trump last month said TikTok posed a security threat by “potentially allowing China to track the locations of federal employees . . . build dossiers of personal information for blackmail and conduct corporate espionage”. Daily newsletter #techFT brings you news, comment and analysis on the big companies, technologies and issues shaping this fastest moving of sectors from specialists based around the world. Click here to get #techFT in your inbox. But Evan Medeiros, a Georgetown professor who was White House Asia adviser to Barack Obama, said the administration had “never articulated the national security rationale for banning TikTok”. “They simply say that the potential to collect Americans’ data is a national security risk but provide no evidence,” he added. He said there were “multiple and legitimate concerns about tech trade with China” but that US officials were “letting their anxiety and attitude get the best of them”. Asked whether he believed that China would retaliate against the moves, he said: “Well, that’s up to them.” Feng Chucheng, an analyst at Plenum, a China-based risk consultancy, said Beijing would be unlikely to take a dramatic response at this point, because the US move was “limited”. “China will not take any substantial move, but will take a symbolic stance to criticise the US for its unilateral move against Chinese tech firms,” he said. Additional reporting by Yuan Yang in Beijing Follow Demetri Sevastopulo on Twitter

 
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Well if TikTok is banned in the US it will be a 3rd rate NO INCOME COMPANY in the US

Ouch!! :lol:


TikTok revenue streams from the US accounts for 42% of total revenue.




Last year, TikTok brought in about $200 million to $300 million in revenue worldwide, a figure that hasn’t previously been reported. This year, TikTok aims to generate $500 million in revenue from the U.S. alone,
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Correction : US does not need to protect its position as much as it needs to ensure that China does not get access to US market or influnence over Americans via these apps.

And its not US alone
African, Europe And the rest of the world are still trading and China can put up tariffs on Indian and Canada goods so so they will never earn a cent from China.
 
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US have to use VPN now. Just like China.
Gives a new meaning to how China is changing the world.
Indian VPN for TikTok setup guides alone are collectively hitting tenmillions of views. 😂

The usual mouthbreathers cant help but pretend to be retarded and feign ignorance.
 
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African, Europe And the rest of the world are still trading and China can put up tariffs on Indian and Canada goods so so they will never earn a cent from China.
Who cares about trade with China. India and US and Canada anyways have lower exports with China than Imports. So go ahead.
 
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