https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/technology/china-toutiao-...
> The country’s top media regulator on Tuesday ordered the company, Bytedance, to shut down its app for sharing jokes and silly videos. Vulgar content on the Neihan Duanzi app had “caused strong dislike among internet users,” a brief notice from the State Administration of Radio and Television said. The company was told to clean up its other platforms, too.
I'm pretty sure that when OP talked about cooperating with Chinese govt. He was talking about what is hinted by trump, that they are doing massive clendestine surveillance on US citizens on behalf of CCP.
(Which incidentally, we now know that some US companies are doing exactly that for the US govt.)
Just my own conspiracy minded pov. Also, most government and related businesses have already taken the steps to advise their employees don't use the app, and don't have it on devices that come into their offices.
Also wouldn't that open US services like facebook and snapchat to the similar treatment by other governments? Why would the US jeopardize their industry like this?
Something doesn't add up.
The current administration has demonstrated how enormously corrupt they are, and we have seen a little bit of circumstantial evidence of "cooperation" between the CCP and the first family. But who knows just how deep that rabbit hole goes?
What do you ask Chinese government to do with an oversea entity. CCP do not have the same influence as US government...
I don't see the POTUS doing anything that is outside the law. I haven't seen it happen once. Heck, even an impeachment investigation didn't even find any broken laws.
The way I see it is the majority in the house abrogated their responsibility.
The House conducted a House investigation to determine if there were grounds for impeachment. They concluded there were, and they drew up articles of impeachment.
The next step is the actual impeachment trial, where the Senate has the authority to compel witnesses to testify under oath under threat of contempt. The House lacks this power over the other branches of government (i.e. as White House counsel explained, they would not comply with any members of the White House staff being called before House committees).
But since the Senate chose to call no witnesses, no witnesses were compelled to testify under oath in an impeachment trial.
There's a reason Congress has the approval of only 1 in 4 Americans polled.
Not as exactly clear-cut as this time around.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton#:~....
1. TikTok is actually not cooperating with the Chinese gov't (and maybe this is the CCP's way of showing them that it goes both ways).
2. The CCP is allowing the US gov't to destroy its own credibility and moral high ground. These threads are usually solidly anti-China but there is a clear stream of discomfort now, with the realization that if national security can be used to override the law, and everything can be a national security threat, then how strong is the foundation of law?
EDIT: A few of the replies have suggested 3) TikTok is simply not that valuable. Which makes all the ruckus being raised by banning it, whether by the US or by India, even sillier?