The US Commerce Department will ban TikTok and WeChat this Sunday

18 September 2020
TikTok will continue to function (though the app won't get updates). WeChat will be affected much more severely.

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  • 18 Sep 2020

Anonymous, 18 Sep 2020And also us pretend to be democracy and pile of freedom of ... moreYeah, China is open.... But not to the search engines available to the rest of the world, or most of the news sites. China even bans TikTok so that it doesn't spoil the Party's message.

What's your point?

I am glad they are banning it, as the Indians already did. India and the US are the main markets for TikTok, and China has been compiling massive amounts of user data without fully disclosing what they collect and how it's used.

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    • 18 Sep 2020

    .alpha, 18 Sep 2020The only difference between the US and an authoritarian nat... moreAnd also us pretend to be democracy and pile of freedom of speech yeah right..
    china is open about censorship at least

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      • Anonymous
      • 0p}
      • 18 Sep 2020

      Next step will be they knock on your door in the middle of the night and drag you out and send you to syberia if you get caught using these apps

        Good News!!!

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          • Anonymous
          • 3PL
          • 18 Sep 2020

          lol man us and their fragile national security you only need to mention national security to the sheep amd they are ready to justify whatever means. i guess us not that different than china when it comes to censorship

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            • IbE
            • 18 Sep 2020

            20-30 yrs ago, CN invited (begged) thousands of company from the west, especially US tech companies, invest and operate business in CN with open arms. After CN obtained the technology and how to run business, they used the old dirty trick and kicked out most of them and made a copycat (Facebook, YouTube, google, ebay, ...) haha CN think the west is stupid with their jungle laws. Trump is smart, why he is billionaire, he waited for his turn. I'm just a little sad that he doesn't ban more like India.

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              • tx3
              • 18 Sep 2020

              US ban tiktok and weChat as a revenge CN banned youtube and facebook long time ago.

              (just kidding)

                This is a great move, i have been praying for this

                  Poh, 18 Sep 2020So true. I was stuck in China before, no google map, no goo... moreWise words, very well said. People don't realise this and just baselessly attack the government trying to protect its citizens

                    India to US :-
                    Dude just follow my footsteps and everything willl be fine

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                      • 18 Sep 2020

                      Thanks god, the grade of stupidness in Tik Tok was reaching too high levels.

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                        • .alpha
                        • q2$
                        • 18 Sep 2020

                        The only difference between the US and an authoritarian nation is the US elects its dictator

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 18 Sep 2020

                          Stondec100, 18 Sep 2020But your okay with China banning other counties, stealing t... moreChina didn't steal anything. When the American companies goes to China to start a business to make trillions of dollars. There is an agreement between the Chines government and the companies that they will need to share their technology and partially owned by chinese Joint venture companies in order for the American company to start a business there. Do you know the big corporations agrees and exchange their IP with hundred of billions of dollars they make while doing business in China. This is a mutual agreement. If they didn't agree, they would have left the country fro the past 40 years. The reason Facebook and Google was banned in China is because foregin government were using Social Media and Google to provoke violent and anti government protest in China. In 2009, a terrorist group who was funded by foreign government were using Facebook to organize killing in Xinjing China.

                            kiloh3rtz, 18 Sep 2020Secretary Wilbur Ross. “At the President’s direction, we ha... moreChina already did ban those, russia has put strict rules with data collection, and europe is so the same as america that it doesn't even care

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                              • Anonymous
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                              • 18 Sep 2020

                              Good

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                                Davy Jones, 18 Sep 2020Tit for tat😂So true. I was stuck in China before, no google map, no google search, no WhatsApp, no gmail for my holiday essential. And no Twitter and Discord for my social fix. I think most common app day to day app people take for grant are block in China for last 10 years+ Isn't Trump only banning 2 app? Doesn't China ban at least 2 apps/games/movies on a monthly basis? We comparing Level 1 Trump to Level 99 China! He still needs to level up! With the US ban there a date and notification, and everyone know about it. With China, it just happens!

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                                  • Anonymous
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                                  • 18 Sep 2020

                                  America greediness at it's peak! Forcing every company to sell their all the struggles to the America... Don't laugh at China, may be your country is on the next target!

                                    kiloh3rtz, 18 Sep 2020Secretary Wilbur Ross. “At the President’s direction, we ha... moreBut your okay with China banning other counties, stealing their IP and censoring right?

                                      this shows how much they are afraid. guess who wins..,

                                        Great work by the Trump administration.