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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: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday August 07 2020, @11:09PM (3 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday August 07 2020, @11:09PM (#1033243)

    You're giving them the benefit of the doubt.

    People in neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and other assorted fascist groups actively train their people to pretend to sound moderate and not-fascist to make their viewpoints sound like they're something they aren't, namely something other than advocacy for bigotry, slavery, and mass murder. And that's also why they'll regularly rebrand themselves ("We're not Nazis, we're 'alt-right'") and change up the symbols they use to identify themselves ("We don't use the swastika anymore, we use the Othala rune instead"): They want you to be committed to their group before you learn that their agenda is identical to that of Adolf Hitler, and that Hitler and his crew were heavily inspired by US white supremacist groups and basically had the same ideology.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @08:09AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @08:09AM (#1033384)

    Citations needed. Or, is this just a douche night for you?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @06:46PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @06:46PM (#1033554)

      All the assholes around here who push far-right politics and racism. The users lime Runaway who occasionally break their moderate facade and admit to being homophobes, racists, and for runaway specifically celebrating Civil Wsr 2.0 so he can kill brown people and to "save" his spawn's economic future. Ask Azuma Hazuki for a link to Runaway's specual time. The general bigotry is on display quite frequently so just pay attention.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @07:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @07:13PM (#1033575)

        lime... Wsr... specual

        You must have been so excited writing this.