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posted by martyb on Friday August 07 2020, @01:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the Bytedance-bit-flipped dept.

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


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday August 07 2020, @07:26PM (4 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday August 07 2020, @07:26PM (#1033104)

    Yeah, because the last dozen POTUS's did nothing to prevent what was warned about long ago.

    Remember a few years ago when millions of Americans got Ebola and tens of thousands died from it? Oh wait, that didn't happen, and it's because the previous president had listened to his Surgeon General and CDC director and other public health officials, and had organized a pandemic response system to specifically contain pandemics. And the current administration, shortly after taking office, disbanded that system and scrapped its plans because the previous president was a Democrat.

    This kind of predictable failure has happened before, for exactly the same reason: Remember when thousands of Americans died to terrorist attack in the 1990's? No, you don't, because the Clinton administration had set up a system for preventing future terrorist attacks in response to the first attempt at destroying the World Trade Center back in 1993. Then the George W Bush administration came in, scrapped that anti-terrorism system because Clinton was a Democrat so he must be wrong about everything, and after less than a year the bad guys succeeded in their goals.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 07 2020, @08:33PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday August 07 2020, @08:33PM (#1033140) Journal

    If Clinton were president right now the Republicans would be onto hearing #25 investigating the tragic deaths of 300 Americans to COVID-19.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @07:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @07:15AM (#1033692)

      Trump has had 40,000 Benghazis and counting. That's worth a hearing or two, right?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @12:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @12:30AM (#1033263)

    Good grief, none of this is true.

    Ebola didn't spread anywhere outside of Africa because it is basically not contagious at all. Only direct contact with infected bodily fluids can reliably spread that virus. In rural Africa even basic sanitation is not always easy to come by, and care for the sick (and burial of the dead) often falls to family members rather than trained professionals. Not only was Ebola not a threat outside of Africa, it became much more manageable within Africa once the Africans learned to recognize it and be take appropriate measures.

    Please cite any anti-terrorist agencies that were impeded by action of G. W. Bush or his administration. What actually happened is that Clinton knew exactly where Osama bin Laden was, but decided to do nothing; took no meaningful action against al-Qaida or Afghanistan after the first WTC bombing, and no meaningful action against them after the USS Cole attack. Despite multiple warnings that al-Qaida had both the capability and intent of attacking the United States, he did nothing.

    When it came to scrapping systems that worked, though, Clinton scrapped the Iraqi sanctions and weapons inspections that would have prevented the second Gulf War.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @01:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @01:22AM (#1033271)

    > And the current administration, shortly after taking office, disbanded that system and scrapped its plans because the previous president was a Democrat.

    And the current administration, shortly after taking office, disbanded that system and scrapped its plans because the previous president was black/i?.

    TIFTFY