President Donald Trump said Friday he will bar fast-growing social media app TikTok from the United States as American authorities have raised concerns the service could be a tool for Chinese intelligence.
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump said:"As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States."He added he would take action as soon as Saturday using emergency economic power or an executive order. Queried by AFP, TikTok declined to comment on the reports of the forced sales, saying only:"We are confident in the long-term success of TikTok.
"We are not political, we do not accept political advertising and have no agenda -- our only objective is to remain a vibrant, dynamic platform for everyone to enjoy," TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer said in post this week.The popularity of the platform surged after ByteDance acquired US-based app Musical.ly in 2017 and merged it with its own video service.
TikTok is bad? Meanwhile Google, Facebook, Android, Alexia & Apple which use passive surveillance is good? Gathering & cataloguing all our lives, listening to conversations or filtering & censoring, is good?
Why did it take so long?
My goodness his hands are small!
Anything related to CCP China should be banned, Taiwan is the real China.
What a fascist
He knows it's not a clock, right?
if we're talking about tools...justsayin
now how are the CCP gonna learn all their fly dance moves?
Not the only evil villain that likes handling pussy.....
I think, therefore I’m right?
'American authorities have raised concerns the service could be a tool for Chinese intelligence.' Trump is the only tool the U.S. needs to be concerned about.
Yeah I'm sure Trump banned it because of the highly intelligent discussions by 16 year olds regarding his policies. All Chinese companies are at the mercy of the CCP. They wouldn't exist otherwise. Time to let a local, free speech based platform take over the market.
Give the kids 10 minutes, trumps ban will mean nothing.
Excellent, a President with courage for a change, instead of an appeaser
What about FB stealing users’ data, dictate what you read, adverts, scams etc? More like he’s taking revenge on this!
Sarah Cooper isn't Chinese.
nah, hes doing this cos it was the app used against his Tulsa shambles. he is now getting back at the youth!!
Nothing to do with how the youngsters messed up his rally. Nothing.
The election is fast coming Donnie tic tic tic tic tic tic tic toc
Well, there goes the under 25 vote. There will be even more protests on the streets!
Better the tool you know!
Well no one is certainly going to accuse Trump of being a tool for intelligence
But he isn't worried about russian bounties on american soldiers? He's annoyed he got outsmarted by kids on tiktok.
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