Posted on 01/18/2025 8:20:38 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Analysts have suggested it is "just matter of time" until the US ban on TikTok spreads to allied countries and beyond - as long as the Trump administration presses ahead with it.
The app will be banned in America from Sunday after US lawmakers ruled it was a national security risk because of owner ByteDance's ties to the Chinese government - ties it denies.
Incoming President Trump has indicated though that he is opposed to the ban and will find a way to reverse it.
If the US ban goes ahead, experts point to the previous ousting of Chinese and Russian tech companies on national security grounds as a potential blueprint for how the TikTok ban might spread around the world.
"There are big parallels between TikTok and what happened with China's Huawei and Russia's Kaspersky that indicates it's just a matter of time until a creeping ban takes affect," says Emily Taylor, Editor of the Cyber Policy Journal.
In both cases these companies were accused by the US of being a threat to national security - but no smoking gun was ever revealed by cyber security authorities.
The same has happened with TikTok.
Under President Trump, Kaspersky's flagship antivirus software product was banned from civil and military computers in the US after accusations arose in 2017 that it was used by the Kremlin in a hacking incident that was never proven.
The UK followed almost immediately and one by one other allies fell into line with restrictions, warnings or bans.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
The war on social media is all over the world. France still has Pavel Durov the founder of Telegram in custody twisting his arm to do what the “Deep State” wants.
It’s part of a post on my blog this weekend regarding events in France...
https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2025/01/france-yellow-vests-week-322the-latest.html
Banning in US and UK....
You say you want a revolution....
You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You’d better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.
Due to social media, governments around the world is forced to be accountable.
Get rid of social media, it'll be business as usual.
Facebook steals your data and hates America too!
I don’t understand the allure, but my wife and sons enjoy it. When President Trump saves this app, he will will gain literally millions of new supporters. If they can turn half republican, then the Dems are cooked.
This is Huge And Series.
Meant Hugh not Huge. lol
Won’t even be really banned in the US let alone the UK.
I bet you Barron is telling him that.
Telegram is still happily running, arrest or no arrest.
Yeah, but it’s owner sits in prison because he doesn’t censor enough.
Where’s Luigi when you need him?
There is not and never has been a ban on TikTok.
Trump said it had to change ownership from the Chinese Communist government.
First thing Biden did was rescind Trump’s order.
Four years later Biden admin says they’ll close the barn door.
Empty gesture.
That was before Trump used TikTok to campaign.
“ That was before Trump used TikTok to campaign.”
Interesting observation/suggestion.
Biden, after four years, went back to Trump’s policy because of this.
Jokes on Biden if so because he’s a day late and a dollar short.
But there have been concessions to France and other countries some allegedly linked to criminal activity others like shutting down Telegram channels of Russian media in EU countries in the censorship realm.
I just deleted all things from that Zuckerberg jerk. If they can take away TikTok, he shouldn’t be making any money, either, much less having a monopoly.
Apparently, people on TikTok vowed to delete Meta apps after the TikTok ban. So in the long run, it'll hurt Zuckerberg because he's not going to see any growth in his business.
He'll have Baby Boomers continue to use Facebook but that'll be about it.
Good, because if anyone has spied on us, it’s been him. Lord knows he and his people have done all they can to silence Christians and conservatives.
Well sure. They don’t even have a first amendment to ignore.
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