U.S. to start blocking TikTok and WeChat downloads Sunday

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BREAKING: US plans to block TikTok and WeChat downloads, Commerce Sec. Ross says, asserting national security and data privacy concerns.

The statement gives TikTok a reprieve as it continues to negotiate a deal in hopes of staving off the full ban.from President Donald Trump in early August in which Trump said the apps posed a threat to national security.

The new deadline adds more tension to the already dramatic negotiations currently happening between TikTok's parent company ByteDance and U.S. technology company Oracle. The two companies have been in talks about a deal to mollify the president's concerns.On Thursday, the two companies reached an agreement on a deal that would stop short of Trump's demand that TikTok be sold to a U.S. company. Instead, TikTok would become a global company based in the U.S.

 

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thats you call freedom what a joke!

this is still a part of Drumpf's temper tantrum against them, stemming from the prank that young adults played on him with reserving spots for that rally of his. If it were about security then many apps would receive the same treatment

Because priorities in a pandemic where people are dying. Banning an app. Isn’t this communism?

Trump fights an egotistical struggle with China 4 besting him in trade talks And seeing our allies run to China for trade While Trump fans struggle with BLM

Good Step forward

Let's get real here. The only reason Trump wants to ban TikTok is because thousands of kids made a fool out of him reserving seats they didn't intend to fill at his Oklahoma rally, and he's retaliating against them. He's proven he doesn't give a damn about national security.

So much for freedom.

Trump is afraid that young people all over the world will use tiktok together, and he is afraid that he cannot continue to be a big man.

No documented risk. NONE. Just CommerceGov realDonaldTrump CHINA_BASHING No evidence.

The Americans in line with McDonald's to get a job 😂😂😂

POTUS´retaliation...giant ego, little intellect...

Do I understand this right? If we elect JoeBiden we’ll live in a dangerous world where big government will wield too much regulatory power & kill competition & corporate profits. Meanwhile, realDonaldTrump is forcing the shutdown of a business he doesn’t like? TrumpsAmerica

This is just retailiation because TIKTOK-users artificially inflated the number of people to attend at a rally in Tulsa. Trump campaign was boasting about more than 1 million people seeking tickets, in the end only about 6000 showed up & POTUS´ fragile little ego got hurt...

It was a nice app when it first started. I hope they made a underground back up app that he cant find out about.

I guess pedophiles will have to go back to the deep web and get their fix. No more preteen and barely teens trying to mimic the lewd, graphic dancing and behavior of documented and proud violent criminal and pros (sry) sex worker...iamcardib or any other degenerate hip hop star

More like because Facebook and trump's son said they want the app banned

Dame guess that means folks will need to get a vpn from China lol

Very goood Decision.. GOD Bless realDonaldTrump ... pls become our president in 2020.. world president!!!

Goood job realDonaldTrump excellent Decision .... Facebook is not allowed in China nor twitter... why should USA allow Chinese aps Usa is doing what CHINA is already doing to all foreign apps in China..ban all China Apps pls.. they steal IP...

I don't trust anything this administration does.

Cool now do Facebook

This is the first good thing Trump has done. Thank you Mr. President.

The king of cancel culture takes away another First Amendment Right part 29390873407202798

This is a Putin-like move, less democracy anyone?

Looking forward to SCOTUS setting trump down to explain freedom of commerce.

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The reason he banned it was because he was butt hurt, no one actually showed up to his rally.

He got his feelings hurt from Tulsa😂 What about our freedom? If I can buy a gun I can certainly download an entertainment app. But freedom only works on a certain agenda I guess?

Then everyone download TikTok!! We have other important things going on like deaths but he is worried about TikTok because they roasted him buying seats to that rally he had and not going. He thought it would be overflowing. Lol teens on TikTok

TrumpIsAFascist TrumpIsATraitor DumpTrump2020

However in other news Russian apps are still ok to download. We will all be a Russian colony here soon thanks to orange mango in chief.

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That’ll get the youth excited to vote.

Tiktok and WeChat are called to shut down and for no good reasons. Trump thinks that he will be applauded because it is hurting the Chinese. But Americans might not care who he will hurt but whom he will help.

If today Trump can ban Tik Tok for a national security excuse. He can ban Twitter, Facebook or anything he doesn't like. It is not too difficult for China to use Twitter or Facebook to steal American's data.

If national security were a big issue with the Trump administration and the SenateGOP, they would pass election security bills that have been sitting on their desks for years now instead of worrying about TikTok. This entire group is a joke.

Facebook is a national security threat. Trump is mad that Tik Tok kids ruined his rally.

ACLU: 'Selectively banning entire platforms like TikTok and WeChat violates the First Amendment and does little to protect our personal data from abuse.'

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