And so the 'war' continues with China, as President Trumps signs executive orders banning Tiktok and WeChat.
United States President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders addressing what he has labelled as the threat posed by apps such as TikTok and WeChat.
The president is calling the pair of Chinese apps a "national emergency" with respect to the information and communications technology and services supply chain.
According to the first order that will take effect in 45 days, any transaction with TikTok's owner, ByteDance Ltd, or its subsidiaries, will be prohibited. The second order similarly prohibits any transaction that is related to WeChat by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, with Tencent Holdings.
The second order says that like TikTok, WeChat automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, similarly noting again the ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
"WeChat, like TikTok, also reportedly censors content that the Chinese Communist Party deems politically sensitive and may also be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist Party," it adds.
"The United States must take aggressive action against the owner of WeChat to protect our national security."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/donald-trump-signs-executive-orders-banning-tiktok-and-wechat/Lately we have some topics about this one and seems the community is divided. And it seems that Trump really take this "serious" threat from China. Let's see how Microsoft will react, they supposedly shows intention on buying TikTok.
We knew this was coming so it is not really a surprise but at the same time it is interesting that the president has decided to actually follow through with his threats, because no one is really going to believe his reasoning, after all we know that all social media platforms spy on you and try to get as much information as they can so they can monetize you.
In that sense TikTok is not really that different from any other social media site and application the only difference is that since that application comes from China they have forbidden it, but when we take into account that many applications and websites are banned in China then in a way it makes sense that the United States has finally decided to do the same.