A spokesperson for Microsoft said Thursday night that the company had no comment on the order.
Trump also issued a similar executive order Thursday targeting Tencent, one of the largest Chinese tech companies. While most of Tencent's business is in China, where it operates the popular app WeChat, it has numerous U.S. investments, including ownership of Riot Games, which makes the popular"League of Legends" online game.
Cybersecurity experts have warned that China's laws allow its government to put pressure on tech companies like ByteDance to provide access to user data.
"I would imagine every teenager will still access TikTok through the VPN they use to access other content. The coronavirus is a national emergency. TikTok is not a national emergency," she said.
Where are the Reich-wingers, who are always crying outrage on any regulations &/or restrictions on capitalism? Hmm...! MAGA = Make America Go Away! MAGA = Millions All Gone Away! What say you, the GOP = Ghouls of Politics, Group of Perpetrators? GOP either 🤐 or 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥💩!
There goes the millenials voting.....
Another useless and unlawful Executive Order
45 days to get your dance videos logged. Not sure why American security is linked to TicToc or why China would want to track at home video makers, they/ TicToc users, are hardly the target market holding US intelligence. But, it makes 3 feel good we should all go along as we do.
So ivanka os giving up here licenses on branded products in China?
Fuckin baby
Facts have proved that the United States is indeed a robber country! Please put away your democracy and freedom!
Yay, Republicans defending a free market without any government interference! ... Oh wait.
Did he just outlaw Fortnite?
Good.
Lol hundreds of thousands Americans dead from COVID and rather than focus on recovery, let's ban some social media app instead of focusing on the real issues facing the world.
Tictok banned me. LOL...What goes around, comes around.
This is an attribute of a strong leader. Stand up to communist China. Trump has many flaws but his hardline policy against China is the right one while other countries and leaders are wimps who let China walk all over them with no retaliation. China must be put in its place.
pissing off the k pop stan because they embarrassed him. I don't think is going to work out the way he wants it to.
Forget about tik tok
How about cannabis for Pain?
Isn't there more important things he should be focusing on!?
. China exploits TikTok, WeChat to poison our Ethnic Chinese Americans, esp. those living in China Town, e.g. by spreading fake news among them that 1. we developed the Coronavirus 2. we spread the virus to China 3. we initiated a bioattack on China .
Whatever it takes to get the 18+ out to vote. TicTokban
Oh good grief.
🤷🏼
is a civilian an 'entity'? I think no.
Teump is really really mad at TikTok. Vote him out!
Can he do this?
It's about business, Trump is just not happy a Chinese 'app' doing better than American 'app'
Good!! MakeAmericaGreatAgain
What's next, Twitter, Facebook ?
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” -George Washington (not a commentary on George Washington)
Wow! trump is very thin-skinned.
*doing business with TikTok*.... doesn't say anything about not being allowed to download and use the app for free?
US media seem to have lost their collective minds over TikTok. Conversely, little reporting re: senseless Trump tariffs imposed on an ally🇨🇦 (remember those?) that will hurt companies, including those in US. Think about that trade
Awe Trump’s feelings are hurt by teenagers who derailed his Tulsa rally.
Thank you Mr. President for putting TIkTok before giving millions of unemployed Americans an unemployment extension and the whole country a stimulus package. You have your priorities mixed up.
Who fuckin cares.
Using the word president before Trump sounds hilarious. America truly is the laughing stock of the world.
Sarah Cooper, what have you done!?
He must feel SO big and powerful! Ban a social media site because people use it to mock you, yet keep avoiding the real issues going on in this country right now. Smdh
Ummm , how about a little focus in our current National Emergency. You could even focus on helping the post office so we can ALL mail-in our absentee ballots.
He acts like he's in middle school! No body likes me, they make fun of me!
What ever happened to the free market? 🙄
Doesn’t he have his makeup and hair to contend with? He needs to get his chores done before he can have his phone back to gossip on Twitter.
Somebody check short selling on TenCent
He took action faster on this than he did with COVID-19 and the mountain American deaths.
tiktok is important enough to get an executive order, meanwhile millions are without jobs, thousands are dying per day, and he can't pronounce Thighland. Yep.. priorities POTUS
Socialism 101
people are dying and he’s trying to ban tik tok?
Of all the things to piss and moan about right now
R TikTok teens doing anything to fight this?
What about preserving records that exist of business done