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Trump Makes TikTok Ban Official, Takes Aim At WeChat, Tencent In Latest Broadside
Donald Trump made it official on Thursday evening. He signed an executive order aimed at compelling ByteDance to divest TikTok, which will be subject to a US ban within weeks.
"Additional steps must be taken to deal with the national emergency with respect to the information and communications technology and services supply chain", the order reads, sensationalizing the situation for maximum effect.
"The spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned by companies in Chin
I’d like to see Tencent’s pressure to remove the Japanese and Taiwanese flags from Maverick’s jacket in Top Gun 2 reversed. It seems like a small issue, but there’s something about a movie about America’s military being censored by China that really doesn’t sit right with me.
Replace those flags with a Confederate flag?
Facebook also gathers huge amounts of information about Americans. Where’s the threat aimed at them? And when is the Congress finally going to rise up and muzzle the man who would be king? The POTUS is clearly executing a coups d’etat by removing a whole branch of the government. Enough already. He’s not making America great again. He’s making it disappear.