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US will ban WeChat and TikTok downloads on Sunday
The Commerce Department plans to restrict access to TikTok and WeChat on Sunday as the Trump administration's executive orders against the two apps are set to take effect.
The Department said Friday that as of Sunday, any moves to distribute or maintain WeChat or TikTok on an app store will be prohibited. Apple and Google didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
While users who have already downloaded the apps may be able to continue using the software, the restrictions mean updated versions of the apps cannot be downloaded.
The restrictions targeting WeChat are more extensive. Beginning Sunday, it will be illegal to host or transfer internet traffic associated with WeChat, the Department said in a release. The same will be true for TikTok as of Nov. 12, it said. (The Trump administration is currently weighing a proposal involving ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent, and Oracle, designed to resolve the administration's national security concerns related to TikTok; the deadline for a deal is Nov. 12.)
Previously:
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Approval for Oracle-TikTok "Trusted Technology Provider" Deal Imminent
TikTok Plans to Sue the Trump Administration Over Ban
TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20
President Trump Threatens TikTok Ban, Microsoft Considers Buying TikTok's U.S. Operations[Updated 2]
India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps
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Investigation Claims United Arab Emirates Uses The ToTok App To Spy
Lawmakers Ask US Intelligence to Assess If TikTok is a Security Threat
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 19 2020, @09:34AM
Imagine a organ concert. A large, modern concert hall, audience sitting in chairs, the musician sitting behind keyboards, performing classical music. And behind him, a man, standing in place, but constantly stepping: right, left, right, left, right, left.
So this is the state of modern Internet. There was a time when these men, stepping in sequence during play, were present in all organ concerts, they were pumping air to bellows. Since 1950s, organs were of course modified to use electric motors and these men sometimes called "kalikants" had to change their jobs.
So they did not protest like cab drivers when Uber was going in. Or like hotel owners when couchsurfing appeared. They had to go as when electric motor was running, their stepping was aimless.
And in the Internet, we have exactly this. We have these men, aimlessly stepping in place because they were always stepping in place. Understanding why they were stepping in place is out of question in our "freedom of thought".
These stepping men are the papers, which are available and publishable by the kind allowance of blessed publishers, like in 18th century.
These men are remote learning with lectures which are streamed only in specific hours, while the server can store thousands of them for playing when students want and when they understand best.
These men are dictators doing artificial wars to censor software because their backdoors are more important than others, at least they think that.