Chinese app TikTok remains under fire by President Trump, with allegations that their being Chinese means China could access their user data, making it a serious problem. President Trump is set to ban TikTok next month.
US officials see this as something China is bound to do with their apps, because Edward Snowden’s leaks showed this is exactly what the US did with its many apps and their user data. And yet did it happen?
The latest report out of the CIA says no. While they said it is possible for China to access such user data, because of course it is, they confirmed that there is no evidence that any such things ever happened with TikTok.
TikTok had already said they’d done nothing wrong, faulting Trump’s ban as denying them due process. They promise to “pursue all remedies available to us.” With US tensions toward China growing, it’s likely they’ll try to limit remedies.
88 more days and this nonsense stops.
…and new nonsense begins with Zio Biden.
Actually, the same nonsense just continues.
No, far, far worse.
Of course, there’s always the faint hope Biden pulls a Nixon when he finds the cupboard is not only bare of anything remotely green, but burned for heat and there’s no way to fund ambitiously expensive new social deals but to cancel the 9/11 wars.
Realistically, though, the same nonsense was not a static condition, but an accelerating downward spiral entering flat spin.
Trump had disrupted that, for a while.
There is no such thing as “far, far worse” than Trump no matter how much you twist yourself into a pretzel trying to convince anyone otherwise.
the exact same thing happening but everyone cheering it on as rebirth of freedom and democracy and the defeat of literal Hitler is far worse.
I agree. But whose fault is that? If Trump wouldn’t have acted like a petulant child in between his narcissistic ramblings, a 77 year old senile establishment fool wouldn’t look good in comparison.
No new wars. No support of COVID-19 medical police statism.
No pointless personal martyrdom for antiwar fashionistas to cry crocodile tears over when nothing changes [for the better] under a replacement regime.
Four more years.
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You seriously believe that?
Makes sense that someone who thinks a President Hilary Clinton would be better or as good as President Trump would see no problem with Biden’s long-established war criminality over Trump’s amateur war criminality.
Not recognizing the good Trump has done, little as that is, decadent insouciance.
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Exactly how is Trump any different from Obama or Clinton? How are they “far, far worse?” The only real difference between them is that Trump is cruder, less intelligent, and more capricious. The same lust for power is there. Feeding one’s ego can lead to the same degree of atrocity as the more simple type of power lust.
No new wars, and no Presidential endorsement of medical police statism over COVID-19.
Those are major policy points in Trump’s favor.
Who’s egos are on the line here really?
Trump, who is probably the most honest president in U.S. history, or progressive egos, who need a convincing liar to sell their humanitarian pretensions?
“because Edward Snowden’s leaks showed this is exactly what the US did with its many apps and their user data.”
Yes, but you are ignoring the difference: When we do it, it is for a righteous cause, when they do it, it is an act of pure evil. The US is a free country, while China is ruled by godless commies…
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Righto! and we believe in Lord Jesus and being blessed by his daddy from the time we declared independence.
Can’t remember where I saw it, but is was a comic strip called “Republican Jesus.” I don’t agree with everything in it, but it was quite hilarious. Somehow the religious right think they have a corner on God and virtue, but, as all of us will find out someday, none are perfect, and we are all wrong about something.
Eh, give spanky a break, how could he possibly find out what is in an intelligence briefing?
Yeah, trust the CIA. “…fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me …you can’t get fooled again…” G.W. Bush
Translation: Trump just burned a CIA eye into China….
Tik Tok was a useful bridge app between the major social platforms and penetrated most of Asia.
WeChat was the CCP preferred darling, and Tik Tok had blown it out of the water. But China couldn’t dare lean on one of their own startups.
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/tik-tok-statistics/.
This is dishonest journalism. The CIA didn’t find anything. This is a wild claim from Forbes that is simply referencing an unsourced NY Times article.
“the agency’s analysts told the White House, it is possible that the
Chinese intelligence authorities could intercept data or use the app to
bore into smartphones. But there is no evidence they have done so”
Where is the NY Times source? Does antiwar.com know that papers like the NY Times marched us into endless wars, with anonymous sources, and now have started a new cold war with Russia? It’s ridiculous to use the NY Times for any story on the Trump administration. They are constantly drumming up nuclear confrontation with Russia and painting US politicians as Russian assets.
The empire is collapsing and it doesn’t even know it…!