Time’s Up

BBC;

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to ban transactions with TikTok’s parent company ByteDance.
 
The executive order says the US “must take aggressive action against the owners of TikTok to protect our national security”.
 
Under the order, beginning in 45 days, any US transaction with ByteDance will be prohibited.
 
TikTok denies accusations it is controlled by or shares data with the Chinese government.

As well as Tencent.

7 Replies to “Time’s Up”

  1. This has been a long time coming, the US has been in a Cold War with China for probably at least a decade at this point, let’s just hope that congress doesn’t manage to tie it up in legalities and whataboutisms

  2. “ let’s just hope that congress doesn’t manage to tie it up in legalities and whataboutisms”

    Precisely what cocaine Mitch was hired for. Along with all the Dems and over half the repubs.

  3. “TikTok denies accusations it is controlled by or shares data with the Chinese government.”

    Yeah sure. That’s what MicroSnot and Bill Gates says.

  4. premier xi – Trudeau quickly slapped retaliatory sanctions on the Chinese government today. Oh wait, that he applied his wrath to the US who kidnapped two of our citizens.
    No, that would be too sensible. It was because Trump slapped sanctions on us for flooding their market with cheap aluminum and putting their aluminum workers out of work. Now their manufacturers who rely on cheap aluminum will be out of work…

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-aluminum-tariff-1.5677036

  5. Just looked up tiktok to find out what it is.

    So I guess we should brace for increased anxiety attacks and Post Tiktok Stress Disorder-induced suicides among the look-at-me-now set?

    1. Yeah Jamie, I’ve no idea what TikTok is either, I’m not even interested now as to what it is. If it’s got Chinese connections, I would consider it a problem by default. There again, I don’t use facebot, twitser, and try to avoid goobal as well. It’s not because of privacy or spying, although that is a problem, but I guess I’m phobic about tech. I recently retired, but for the last eighteen years I worked for a large multinational company, that has about seven thousand employees in Canada alone, and they paid for all employee phones. My former boss, told me I was the very last employee in Canada, to switch from a flip phone to a smart phone, and that was in 2017. He used to get very upset with me about my refusal to switch. I just find all this tech stuff incredibly frustrating to use, so tend to avoid it as much as I can.
      Even then, in the end, I only switched because the flip phone died. I hate all this tech crap.

  6. TikTok, Zoom, Twitter, Google, Facebook, … is there any big tech product not completely under the thumb of the CCP?

    Pretty sure if you use a Lenovo computer, or any Microsoft product, the CCP just owns you. Anyone doing assembly in China, like Apple, Dell, …

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