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We should be worried that China will retaliate and block Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Google etc..

Oh wait, THEY ALREADY DO!

1 posted on 09/18/2020 5:41:34 AM PDT by grayhog
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I like it when he tells big tech what to do. I think this may be the first time. I do not know why we don’t talk of big tech political censorship being a civil rights violation.


2 posted on 09/18/2020 5:46:49 AM PDT by BusterDog
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If a US (or civilized nation’s) company buys It completely there might not be a problem.But “trusted partner”...trusted by the Butchers of Beijing? No thanks!
3 posted on 09/18/2020 5:53:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Thanks To Biden Voters Oregon Is Now A Battleground State!)
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Trump needs to blow this off until the election. A ban will only antagonize GenZ and Millennial voters.


4 posted on 09/18/2020 6:04:29 AM PDT by montag813 (Nonsenze)
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DJT doesn’t just talk. He acts.


5 posted on 09/18/2020 6:21:11 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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Blocking downloads accomplishes little. Banning their use in the United States would be another matter.

Requiring Apple to revoke the app's certs would disable it on Apple devices.

Doing similar on the Android Play Store would ban the app's execution on Android devices (called "dropping the ban hammer" at Google.)

IMO, banning downloads means little/nothing. It's just telling the idiot millenials to hurry up and download it and gives them three days to do so.

7 posted on 09/18/2020 6:24:54 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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“Thirteen year-olds hit hardest. Most vow not to vote for Trump in the upcoming election.”

“Democrats ask the thirteen year-olds...’What are you wearing?’.”


10 posted on 09/18/2020 7:11:37 AM PDT by moovova
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Houston Intervened in US Political Movement

http://chinascope.org/archives/24225

Radio Free Asia (RFA) published an article explaining the reason that the U.S. closed China’s Consulate in Houston.

The article stated that the U.S. has known that the staff members at the consulate were conducting suspicious activities, but, for a while, it did not take any action. The Second Department of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which is the PLA’s intelligence unit, sent staff members from a large network company, with fake IDs, to China’s Consulate in Houston. Those technicians used a large video platform’s backend data to identify people who might participate in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and ANTIFA’s protests and then created and sent them customized videos on how to organize riots and how to do promotions.

The purpose was to “weaponize” big data technology. It delivered relevant materials precisely to those people who were most likely to participate in the protests, while other people could not even find those videos.

RFA did not spell out the company names. A Twitter account said the technicians were from Huawei and the video platform they used to identify candidates and push videos to was TikTok.

Sources:
1. Radio Free Asia, August 7, 2020
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/ear/ear-straw-08062020081345.html


11 posted on 09/18/2020 7:20:31 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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....malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data...

President Trump is spot on!!!!
TikTok, WeChat, and also Google, Facebook, Twitter, all social media, share the foundation of American Citizens’ Personal Data.

Social Media hoovers up all personal data to exploit, datamine, sell, and influence peoples opinions.

If you are going to hoover up peoples personal data, THEN YOU MUST SEND LARGE DOLLARS TO THE TREASURY.


12 posted on 09/18/2020 7:22:05 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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I personally think that FB, Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, and most other anonymous apps of social media may be the downfall of civilization. Without a real name in a post, you can say things you wouldn't say to a person's face.

Social media is NOT bringing people together, it's doing the opposite.

I was on Face Book for a couple of years just to experience it and look up old friends. I was surprised at the awful things said to me by who I considered a friend because I didn't agree with them. But what really made me cancel FB was the inane daily postings of people who thought others gave a shit about their breakfast or the 3 seconds more they ran or drive time to work or whether to have a taco or burger for lunch. Dip shits all.

Twitter is the worse. Anonymous posters saying just any crap they would never have the nerve to tell a person in real life. Never signed on and will never us it.

I have something to say, I'll use an open public board like this Free Republic or Town Hall.

However, for very personal or controversial messages, I used encrypted programs like ProtonMail.com. Catch is the end recipient has to be signed on also to decode the encryption. However, it's free.

13 posted on 09/18/2020 8:32:17 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated)
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