Trump issued executive order to ban TikTok in 45 days

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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."

[Bev54]

1. LOL idiot!

[vercetti2021]

3. Declaring war on teens

Good luck Donny. You just unleashed the Kraken

[Thekaspervote]

4. Law suits in ...3-2-1....

[progressive nobody]

5. This is a vindictive action against Sarah Cooper. It has to be.

isn't it illegal?

[qazplm135]

6. so this is enforced how?

Does he think this creates a crime somehow?

[mr_lebowski]

7. That's what they get for letting their bratty users ruin Needy Amin's Tulsa COVID Party! (nt)

[msongs]

8. got any independent verification? nt

[herding cats]

15. Washington Post, LA Times and the Guardian all have it up.

Just google them.

[smirkymonkey]

9. So? They will just find another platform, won't they?

And be all that much more hostile toward him. What a fool! He can't stop them!

[Whiskeytide]

10. I think he actually banned ...

... “Tic Tac”, so I’m thinking the social media platform is ok.

[Igel]

11. It'll be subject to an injunction by COB Friday. n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

12. The man-child who would be dictator strikes again.

Ought to be interesting to see how they try to enforce it.

[herding cats]

13. Does this mean We can't use WeChat to speak to the people we know in China anymore?!

Anyone know?

[subterranean]

17. The order bans "transactions" related to WeChat with its owner, Tencent Holdings.

What exactly that means for current users of the app is unclear. I would like to know, too.

[herding cats]

18. There's so much grey area here.

I'm suspecting Trump has little clue how much many of us here interacts with people in China via our work.

[Flaleftist]

14. Is the way TikTok collects information on users different than how Facebook collects information?

[herding cats]

16. A good question.

I have neither app on my devices, but I do know people who use WeChat to keep up with their family members in China. This will be a kneecap blow to them.

[Victor_c3]

19. That was almost exactly what I was thinking

How is their data collection any different from any other app out there??

I personally never was a fan of social media of any sort, it seems too much like work having to following and like everything, tweets, friend requests and all that shit

[mathematic]

20. Yes. The collector in TikTok's case is a sovereign nuclear armed totalitarian state

Facebook is run by some scumbags in california.