TikTok ban in U.S ? Donald Trump says he will ban TikTok from U.S.
It's the latest rift in the escalating
tech war between the U.S and China, for weeks U.S officials have raised
security concerns over the chinese-owned
video app TikTok, saying it can help beijing spy
on americans
and now president Donald Trump
threatened to ban it
all together.
Donald Trump says "we're looking at TikTok we may be banning TikTok we may be
doing
some other things or a couple of options
but a lot of things are happening so
we'll see what happens but
we are looking at a lot of alternatives
with respect to TikTok."
Trump stepped up his rhetoric following
reports that he may sign an order
forcing chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the u.s portion of TikTok. Microsoft was said to be in talks to
acquire it but neither side confirmed
any deal. In a blog post earlier this week TikTok's chief Kevin Mayer says his
company is not being treated fairly, he says it's receiving more scrutiny
because of its chinese origins
and insists it is not the enemy.
TikTok estimated to have 800 million
active users worldwide
attended them in the u.s. Experts say
banning it
would be challenging. In june a video that went viral on TikTok was seen as one of the reasons
behind the poor attendance at trump's
campaign rally in Tulsa Oklahoma, forcing a wildly popular app off the
smartphones of millions of americans
could prove to be an unpopular move
ahead of trump's re-election.
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