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Q&A: What would a U.S. ban on Chinese-owned app TikTok mean?

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Industry officials say that any ban could invoke some retaliation from China against U.S. businesses.

China has no reason for retaliation. Facebook and Instagram are already banned in China and so this would make it even Steven.

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Why is Trump so concerned about an app that teenagers use to share their childish videos? He should focus on something called "COVID-19".

Perhaps, because soldiers and politicians have been using it too.

Apps like that capture location data and we've all learned that to be extremely telling for what certain people are doing. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-data-national-security.html People located near military bases tend to be military connected. If they show up in other parts of the world in the tracking data and stay there for more than a week, then they are probably "deployed." Time to look into what they are saying to "friends" casually, perhaps something innocent is critical data for an enemy.

The CCP blocks facebook, twitter, google, and a number of other "western" apps too. Why? Because they refused to share data with the CCP-govt. When that first happened, the US Congress should have made dealing with China illegal for American companies, just like they banned NASA from working with the Chinese in space after repeated, proven, stolen, technology has shown up in Chinese rockets and missiles. Since 2000, China has been stealing technology from non-Chinese companies in the open by mandating tech-transfers. How else can the fact that China has a probe on the far side of the moon be explained?

Why does China have an internal version to every major, popular, world internet service?

All of this was definitely smart on the CCP's side. They got away with it because western companies were too afraid of not "being there" to say no. Hundreds of companies capitulated. Tesla included.

TikTok is just the beginning, I hope. I hope post-election that the next President keeps it up and expands it. The goal is to have fair competition and either

China needs to change to follow the rest of the world,

the world needs to change to follow China's methods (force IP transfer to local, competing companies, local manufacturing, and the ability to explicitly ignore all copyrights and patents from Chinese controlled companies, or

we just need to cut off all trade with China around the world.

The current situation isn't sustainable. It is win-lose, not win-win.

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Trump says TikTok is a data sharing app with the Chinese government , once again another Trump statement without back up facts, , really, and do Americans really think that all the data collected by such companies as FaceBook/Instagram , Amazon, E-Bay, etc couldn't find its way into government agencies hands, they all ready sell/share your information with third parties. Plus like most governments around the world, they already have all the information on you anyway. This is just another attack on a successful Chinese company similar to the Huawei attack, America has this fear of not always being number one, well they better get used to it.

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Trump would never allow the banning of Twitter! That's his major communication medium. It fits his attention level perfectly!

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we just need to cut off all trade with China around the world.

I agree. But the sticking point is rogue companies like Apple, GM, TESLA, Boeing etc who think they are above US law. They should all be ordered to cease all trade with Communist China, or taxed out of existance.

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Why is Trump so concerned about an app that teenagers use to share their childish videos? He should focus on something called "COVID-19".

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How about banning Twitter at the same time?

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But the sticking point is rogue companies like Apple, GM, TESLA, Boeing etc who think they are above US law. They should all be ordered to cease all trade with Communist China, or taxed out of existance.

They are doing legal things. Until those practices become illegal, there is only a moral question, not a legal one. Chinese people need jobs too. It isn't about the people. It is about the Govt there. Please Cisco, Microsoft to the list.

GM, Tesla, Boeing each have factories world-wide, including inside the USA, so that isn't quite the same situation. Cisco, Apple, and Microsoft are mainly in the US. Lots of companies in the world have sourced manufacturing and testing to Chinese locations.

https://news.microsoft.com/about-microsofts-presence-in-china/

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252468671/Cisco-frozen-out-of-China-as-Trumps-trade-war-rages-on

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-apple-suppliers-analysis/if-apple-is-hurting-due-to-the-coronavirus-its-suppliers-and-rivals-likely-are-too-idUSKBN20C147

Japan is paying 87 companies to leave China. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-helps-87-companies-to-exit-china-after-pandemic-exposed-overreliance/2020/07/21/4889abd2-cb2f-11ea-99b0-8426e26d203b_story.html due to "overreliance". They aren't forcing them back to Japan, just out of China into other Asian countries. Did I miss this story on JT?

Let me know when all Japanese companies are forced to leave China, not just leaving is needed, all ties need to be reduced over a few years, then completely cut.

Or one of the other choices above is needed. A hurting Chinese people and economy isn't in our interest beyond getting the people to change the ruling elite there.

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Two petty-minded reasons why the man-child is mad with Tik Tok:

● Sarah Cooper

● Tulsa rally

Tik Tok may be popular with teenagers, but a lot of the users are of voting age. Just saying.

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It's going to be very hard to ban these apps without doing what China does, and create a firewall blocking the traffic from such apps.

That said, China doesn't allow Western apps within China - so why are they complaining about us not allowing theirs ?

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It could make many companies wary of the U.S. government’s capricious decisions

It could make many companies wary of the U.S. government’s PATRIOTIC decisions.

There, I fixed it for you.

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