[ April 22, 2024 ]
China-owned TikTok has been caught spying on millions of its users here in the US.
The President is always looking out for us, while the Democrat party of treason works furiously to aid and abet our enemies. If the Dems were as good to the President as they are to China, we would be unstoppable.
Warning—Apple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users
TikTok links to China put EVERY user at risk of ‘spying and censorship’, experts warn
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It’s owned by one of China’s most elusive billionaires, and is linked to a heavily censored and surveilled app called Douyin.
TikTok has a western name and huge popularity in the UK and USA, which is one of the reasons why we launched TikTok Time Bomb – a series to raise awareness of the potential dangers on the app.
But cyber-experts have repeatedly warned about TikTok’s Chinese ownership.
The situation is so serious that last year, a letter by US senators branded TikTok as a “counterintelligence threat we cannot ignore”.
The US Army, Navy, and Marines have all banned soldiers from using the app – and the Transport Security Administration has blocked employees from sharing posts on it too.
TikTok’s owner is mysterious Chinese tech titan Zhang Yiming.
He runs a company called ByteDance, which has earned him an estimated fortune of $13billion (£9.96billion).
ByteDance launched a TikTok-style app called Douyin in China in September 2016.
Douyin is heavily censored by the Chinese government.
Even harmless cartoon character Peppa Pig is banned from being shared on Douyin – because it was being used “subversively”, Chinese censors said.
Zhang launched Douyin as TikTok for the rest of the world in 2017.
And TikTok says it stores and processes user data in the US, not China – with a back-up in Singapore.
But TikTok has admitted that some data may have been processed by the Chinese arm of ByteDance before February 2019.
I hope this has the abusive and totalitarian social media giants quaking in their boots.
Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action as soon as Saturday
By:Riya Bhattacharjee, Amanda Macias, Jordan Novet CNBC, Fri, Jul 31 2020:
- President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act as soon as Saturday to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the United States.
- Trump did not specify whether he will act through an executive order, or another method such as a designation, according to NBC News.
- Trump’s comments come as it was reported Friday that Microsoft has held talks to buy the TikTok video-sharing mobile app from Chinese owner ByteDance.
President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act as soon as Saturday to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the United States, NBC News reported.
Trump made the comments while chatting with reporters on Air Force One during the flight back to Washington from Florida.
“As far as TikTok is concerned we’re banning them from the United States,” Trump said, calling the action a “severance.”
Trump did not specify whether he will act through an executive order, or another method. such as a designation, according to NBC News.
“Well, I have that authority. I can do it with an executive order or that,” Trump said.
Trump’s comments come as it was reported Friday that Microsoft has held talks to buy the TikTok video-sharing mobile app from Chinese owner ByteDance, one person close to the situation told CNBC. This person characterized the talks as having been underway for some time, rather than being brand new.
Trump told reporters that he firmly rejected the reported spinoff deal involving Microsoft buying TikTok, NBC News reported.
A TikTok acquisition could make Microsoft, a major provider of business software, more concentrated on consumer technology, which Microsoft has moved away from somewhat in recent years, by exiting the smartphone hardware, fitness hardware and e-book markets.
Chinese company ByteDance launched TikTok in 2017. The app has grown more popular during the coronavirus pandemic, with 2 billion downloads in April, according to Sensor Tower. Competitors include Facebook and Snap.
ByteDance investors seeking to take over TikTok have valued it at $50 billion, Reuters reported earlier this week.
The rise of TikTok in the U.S. has prompted the Trump Administration to scrutinize the app.
Microsoft declined to comment on the talks, which were first reported by Fox Business Network.
“While we do not comment on rumors or speculation, we are confident in the long-term success of TikTok,” TikTok said in a statement Friday.
Trump said earlier on Friday that the administration was looking at various options for what to do with TikTok, including banning the app.
Earlier this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. was looking at banning TikTok as well as other Chinese social media apps, citing national security concerns. Pompeo added that the Trump administration was evaluating TikTok akin to Chinese state-backed tech companies Huawei and ZTE, which he has previously described as “Trojan horses for Chinese intelligence.”
U.S. officials have long complained that Chinese intellectual property theft has cost the economy billions of dollars in revenue and thousands of jobs and threatens national security. Beijing maintains it does not engage in intellectual property theft.
The move by the Trump administration represents another step in the deteriorating relations between Washington and Beijing and comes a week after the U.S. closed the Chinese consulate in Houston, prompting China to shutter the U.S. consulate in Chengdu.
The Pentagon has taken concrete steps to discourage U.S. service members and their families from using Chinese-backed tech.
In December, the Defense Information Systems Agency advised that all Department of Defense personnel should not use the Chinese-owned social media platform, citing a “potential risk associated with using the TikTok app.”
A year earlier, the Pentagon halted sales of Huawei and ZTE mobile phones and modems on military bases around the world again citing national security concerns.
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26 Comments
3 years ago
Only the young or the left will have any complaints about Trump banning them.
Heaven knows most of us need protection from our own stupidity! lol …
3 years ago
Reply to
tjke
Correct but there’s one good think about youth, they can change their minds in a New York minute and break those democratic brainwashing chains that bind them. Also their interest goes from one thing to another. The young don’t let any grass grow under their feel like some do at my age. lol So keep a positive attitude. As the old saying, what doesn’t kill us, strengthens us. Seems we’ll be getting stronger by the day… : )
3 years ago
Reply to
Great-grandma Dorothy
What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger? What doesn’t kill us can also cripple us, blind us, disfigure us, leave us in a coma, weaken us, etc., etc., etc.
Nietzsche was a fool for saying that, his mind was probably already weakened by syphilis when he wrote it.
Much too often, youth is wasted on the young, and wisdom is wasted on the old.
3 years ago
Reply to
Great-grandma Dorothy
Being in my 80’s I am use to quotes. That actually quote is: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” To me that means: Only through experience of trials and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Our brain is suppose to be a meaning-making machine, designed to sort vast and varied sensory information into coherent, orderly perception, organized primarily in the form of narrative: i.e., “this happened, which led to that, which ended up…”
Much in life causes us physical, mental and emotional pain. If it isn’t something that “kills” our bodies, then we should be able to learn and prophet from whatever the experience was so we can better protect ourselves – if possible. A shame you see it the bad way you do or was that just to hit back at me for daring to say it? I’m pretty use to disrespect and anger when I have the nerve to say what I think. But that’s okay for it doesn’t bother me = anymore.
Your actually quote should be: “Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young.” Or better said; how can the old give of their wisdom in a way the youth will understand it? Advice is not to gratify the giver, but to speak truth to the listener. A shame so many take it offensively instead of how it was meant.
Hope you have a good weekend than you seem to be having now…
3 years ago
Reply to
Great-grandma Dorothy
At my age I take life – everyday very seriously .
Bye and thank you for your decision…
3 years ago
Outrage in France after 23-year-old Axelle Dorier killed by Youcef T. and Mohamed Y. in brutal hit-and-run
https://rmx.news/article/article/outrage-in-france-after-23-year-old-axelle-dorier-killed-by-youcef-t-and-mohamed-y-in-brutal-hit-and-run
3 years ago
Reply to
randomuser
The POS moronic parasitic feral animals need to be shot. So they killed a dog first and then drove off to run over another dog and got the owner too. The only good muslim is a dead muslim!!!!!
3 years ago
Reply to
randomuser
Yeah, they do not have to do it here because BLM and ANTIFA and ignorant fools following and supporting them are doing it. Yes with Soros support!
3 years ago
Reply to
Don39
…and Democrat Congressional support.
…….and GOP inaction.
………..and DOJ inaction.
3 years ago
Yes, it must be done. Forbid tik tok immediately and send them back to China
3 years ago
Microsoft is rumored to be in negotiations to buy Tik-tok! Surely, Gates can be trusted not to spy on us and send the info to the ChiComs. LOL
3 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
Maybe Gates is trying to compete with Zuckerberg in stealing personal information and selling it like Zuckerberg.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You can be assured, that back door anti-American collusion and subversive activities occurs frequently between GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER and COMMUNIST CHINA!
3 years ago
Well, I suppose we’ll be seeing even more politicians the Chinese have in their hip pocket
3 years ago
Reply to
Lunch_Money
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), had a Chinese spy on her staff, for about 20 years, who kept her abreast of developments so she can stop investigations.
3 years ago
3-3/4 years late and WEAK!
BAN ALL TRADE WITH COMMUNIST CHINA!
3 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications#Criticism
In April 2020, Citizen Lab warned that having much of Zoom’s research and development in China could “open up Zoom to pressure from Chinese authorities.”[14] In June 2020, Zoom was criticized for closing multiple accounts of U.S. and Hong-Kong based groups, including that of Zhou Fengsuo and two other human rights activists, who were commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. The accounts were later re-opened, with the company stating that in the future it “will have a new process for handling similar situations.”[58] Zoom responded that it has to “comply with local laws,” even “the laws of governments opposed to free speech.”[74][75][76] Zoom subsequently admitted to shutting down activist accounts at the request of the Chinese government.[77] In response, a bi-partisan group of U.S. senators requested clarification of the incident from the company.[78]
Workforce
In January 2020, Zoom had over 2,500 employees, with 1,396 in the United States and 1,136 in international locations.[79] It is reported that 700 employees within a subsidiary work in China and develop Zoom software.[14] In May 2020, Zoom announced plans to open new research and development centers in Pittsburgh and Phoenix, with plans to hire up to 500 engineers between the two cities over the next few years.[80] In July 2020, Zoom announced the opening of a new technology center in Bangalore, India, to host engineering, IT, and business operations roles.[81] The company ranked second place in Glassdoor’s 2019 “Best Places to Work” survey.[82][83]
Zoom’s product development team is largely based in China, where an average entry-level tech salary is one-third of American salaries which is a key driver of its profitability.[84][14] Zoom’s R&D costs are 10 percent of its total revenue and less than half of the median percentage among its peers.[84]
3 years ago
Just cut China off from the US and see how they get by.
3 years ago
I am firmly for banning anything associated with the CCP and that includes leftist Democrat politicians and the Democrat Party which may have become worse than the Chinese Communist Party, certainly more stupid!
3 years ago
Very good!
3 years ago
I want to know if they are getting them with orders from a certain on- line seller called ‘Top Hat’ which I know used to sell vial of seeds among a wide range of China knock off goods?
3 years ago
Reply to
Don39
That does not mean they are not associated with the Top Hat site from previous online activity.
