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From The Verge:
President Trump has signed a new executive order which will block all transactions with Bytedance, TikTok's parent corporation, in an effort to "address the national emergency with respect to the information and communication technology supply chain."
The move comes after months of escalating tensions, which saw Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others at the White House warn that TikTok presented a national security threat because of its Chinese ownership. Microsoft is currently in talks to acquire portions of the app, aimed to be complete by September 15th.
A parallel order banned transactions with WeChat, a popular texting app in China that maintains a small user base in the US.
[...] The executive branch has the power to levy sanctions against individuals and corporations by placing them on the "entity list," as the US did against Huawei and ZTE last year. But such sanctions are typically put in place by the Commerce Department rather than the White House, and subject to a specific rule-making procedure that seems to have been short-circuited by the surprise executive order.
See also: Tencent stock plummets after Trump announces plan to ban WeChat in the US
Previously:
(2020-08-01) President Trump Threatens TikTok Ban, Microsoft Considers Buying TikTok's U.S. Operations[Updated 2]
(2020-07-07) Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents
(2020-06-30) India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps
(2020-06-28) TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data
(2019-12-27) Investigation Claims United Arab Emirates Uses The ToTok App To Spy
(2019-10-26) Lawmakers Ask US Intelligence to Assess If TikTok is a Security Threat
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2020, @03:37PM (5 children)
Oh, he has been addressing the other real emergencies alright. Just not the same way that you want him to address them. Politics, you know.
And the government is big, just because this is a news article about foreign policies, you're saying it's not dealing with domestic problems? Are you going to post in a COVID-19 news article that he's not addressing national debt and poverty? On a national debt stories, you'll say something about COVID-19 and poverty? Then on a poverty news article....
Plus, there's real people across the Pacific Ocean too. The real people (in Hong Kong and East Turkestan) are in real emergencies and are hoping the international communities will band together and stand up to Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They are cheering on any sanctions that any countries will put on China.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 07 2020, @06:13PM
Competently?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday August 07 2020, @07:14PM (3 children)
You're right: I don't want a president who arranges to have American citizens die because he doesn't like the governor of the territory or state that they're dying in. And that's been a consistent pattern of this administration.
This was evident as early as 2017, with wildly different responses to hurricanes hitting Texas and Puerto Rico [politico.com]. A few months ago, the federal government has been credibly accused of stealing necessary medical supplies from Democratic-controlled states to give them to Republican-controlled states, a decision that killed a number of doctors and nurses as well as patients who were forced to go without those supplies. And just last week, we learned that the federal government torpedoed its own plan to contain Covid-19 because the outbreaks were worst in Democratic-controlled states.
And no, Democratic administrations do not pull that kind of crap. Obama hated Republican Florida governor Rick Scott, but didn't withhold federal disaster aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, for example.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2020, @08:23PM (2 children)
I pay $1000 or more a year in taxes because of him because I happen to live in one of those "coastal elite" (aka "blue") states and that fuckwad and his cronies capped the amount of property taxes I can deduct. And that was done purely out of spite. The Republican Party, who will STILL tell you that they are against oppressive taxes with a straight face, tax me on taxes that I pay. But somehow they'll argue I'm not double-taxed.
I hope everybody on every ticket in November with "(R)" next to their name gets voted out. They need to take such a huge beating that there is a real reckoning and the house is burned down and rebuilt on real political principles (not those you completely abandon and adopt the compete opposite of in only a matter of a few months).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2020, @08:33PM (1 child)
Why should us living in more fiscally sensible places subsidize your choice to live in a "Democrat paradise", with free money and services for anyone who can make it across the border, along with people who have given up legitimate work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2020, @10:32PM
We'll gladly take you guys off of the welfare money we send your way. It is simply astounding that the same people who take more money from Washington than they contribute complain about anyone's fiscal situation. The red flyover states are the absolute worst welfare queens there ever were. I'd LOVE to seem how their budgets are if they had to actually carry their own weight for a change instead of just being given free money. But somehow, giving money to someone living under the poverty line is a bad thing . . . .