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Trump's action in trying to ban TikTok is actually anti-American. a) It violates the rights of millions of American TikTok users. b) It violates the rights of
by javert 6y ago
Trump's action in trying to ban TikTok is actually anti-American.
a) It violates the rights of millions of American TikTok users.
b) It violates the rights of thousands of Americans employed by TikTok.
c) It violates the rights of American investors in ByteDance
d) It isn't a security threat---the Chinese don't care what teenagers have on their phones.
Hopefully the courts will side with American rights and the rule of law, here.
I think there is an argument that TikTok needs to be divested from Chinese in the long run. That was already the plan. However, that isn't what's happening now.
Rather, Trump just said he would destroy the company in a short amount of time, creating a firesale (possibly to his friend Larry Ellison). This is property destruction, theft, and gangsterism.
- kube-system 6y agoHow does the proposed US ban on transactions with TikTok violate users’ rights? Isn’t the application free? Also, there are many teenagers who are employed by the US government who are entrusted with state secrets, whom any foreign intelligence agency would love to surveil. I would guess that TikTok also has users that aren’t teenagers. The potentiality to steal state secrets over social media is not novel. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a32599593/beer-app-cia-tracking/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a32599593...
- javert 6y ago> How does the proposed US ban on transactions with TikTok violate users’ rights? Isn’t the application free? I think Trump is threatening to eliminate the app from the app store. Anyway, the app can't really function with a transaction ban, because it generates revenue from advertisements. > Also, there are many teenagers who are employed by the US government who are entrusted with state secrets Members of the military, some federal employees, and the children of some federal employees (e.g. the children of diplomats, for instance) should be banned from using TikTok, out of an over-abundance of caution. My understanding is that this was already the policy (or at least, parts of it were) before Trump decided to destroy TikTok. Hard to see that you are making a genuine argument here. I mean, the fact that some teenagers are soldiers (for instance) does not begin to justify a blanket ban on the product.