“President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order that would ban the social media app TikTok from operating in the US in 45 days if it is not sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance.

The order does not state that a certain amount of money from the sale needs to be sent to the US Treasury Department, which the President has been insisting on for several days.

The order alleges that TikTok "automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories. This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans' personal and proprietary information -- potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage."

It also claims that the platform censors "content that the Chinese Communist Party deems politically sensitive" and "may also be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist Party, such as when TikTok videos spread debunked conspiracy theories about the origins of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus."

The order states, “The following actions shall be prohibited beginning 45 days after the date of this order, to the extent permitted under applicable law: any transaction by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, with ByteDance Ltd. (a.k.a. Zìjié Tiàodòng), Beijing, China, or its subsidiaries, in which any such company has any interest, as identified by the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) under section 1(c) of this order."

cnn.com/2020/08/06/politics/trump-executive-order-tiktok/index.html

It's being sold to Microsoft but the thing that's so dangerous is how he's clearly doing this as a form of retaliation and spitefulness

Idk if it's to cover his ass and make him look better after his terrible run as POTUS or to genuinely spark a fight with Chinese, but it's not becoming of a wild leader

At same time, Trump also issued an executive order pushing the same ban for WeChat and its parent company Tencent. These orders will certainly be challenged in court, but Tencent has investments in many US companies, plus it operates games like PUBG Mobile, League of Legends and as well as a significant portion of Fortnite developer Epic Games. WeChat allows communication for people inside and outside China, and it’s unclear what a ban could mean for users in the US.

engadget.com/tiktok-wechat-executive-order-014615752.html

Damn wtf

TikTok sucks

why 45 days

why not 3 days smh

Trump is p****

Wonder how this affects ktt2 premium

So TikTok poses a national emergency but not the pandemic that has killed 160K people? aight

mans is like "it is what it is" with rona but some young kids f*** with his votes and now he pushes the panic button

literally how he thinks lol

Dam he also raw dogged Tencent and Epic.

Gamers raging.

Zoomers lost

Honestly it’s unethical business because Microsoft has a unfair bargaining leverage

False equivalence out now

As long as it keeps their s***ty credit score system far away from the west, its good news

Microsoft is just as insidious, it’s acquiring TikTok to train it’s AI to better understand human behavior

washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/05/microsoft-tiktok-ai

Well no s***, they created windows 10, literal Spyware.

But we don't need a world power on top of the US that puts Muslims in concentration camps and evicts black people from their houses.

The US is bad enough as it is

Wait I use windows 10