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Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:33AM (#24290692)
WeChat is a more credible threat but the anglosphere media is mostly ignorant of them so TikTok it is.
Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company by kube-system on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:35AM (#24290701)
WeChat isn't a threat because barely any Americans use it.
Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:00AM (#24291143)
Many Chinese Americans use it to communicate with family. Some of them work on sensitive programs and are easily monitored by a multi app with broad permissions.
Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company by seanmcdirmid on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:19AM (#24291255)
Chinese immigrants are the primary users in the states, and they don’t use it for any economic transactions in the USA, obviously (stores might support wepay, but that is targeted at Chinese tourists).
Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company by kube-system on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:47AM (#24293619)
That is why I said “barely any”, instead of “zero”.
Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company by kmonsen on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:22AM (#24290943)
The executive order targets wechat as well.
Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company by kerng on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:55AM (#24291118)
Isnt Trump's action including Wechat/Tencent as well?