Laws and law enforcement are the only sane ways to deal with espionage or whatever the accusation is. What Trump is doing here must be illegal, I hope it is challenged and defeated in court.
US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
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#22Can someone explain the motivation?
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#23Theres an incredible amount of foreign propaganda in western social media anyway. Twitter took down like a million CCP accounts the other month (they made an announcement about it) and thats just the ones they know about. This is a step thats at least in spirit probably makes sense but there are more larger issues. Reddit literally has an API to comment...you think all those policial default subs are real comments? N…
Political PACs were openly bragging about manipulating reddit's political subs in 2016 with thousands of accounts and reddit did absolutely nothing. [1] [2]
[1] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/david-brock-hil...
[2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-pac-spends-dollar1-mil...
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#24Which workarounds you suggest around the Great Firewall of the United States of America?
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#25Is there any precedent for a president to do such a thing? I am completely astonished and dumbstruck that everyone is ok with this.
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#26Tencent is a particularly interesting selection given their stake in Riot Games, Activision Blizzard, Epic Games, Supercell, and others. https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1291565115670695936?s=19
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#27So does this ban transactions with all of Tencent or just those in relation to WeChat? https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or... Section 1. (a) The following actions shall be prohibited beginning 45 days after the date of this order, to the extent permitted under applicable law: any transaction that is related to WeChat by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction…
You won't be able to play overwatch anymore.
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#28Doesn’t this eviscerate Chinese investment in SV?
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#29So does this ban transactions with all of Tencent or just those in relation to WeChat? https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or... Section 1. (a) The following actions shall be prohibited beginning 45 days after the date of this order, to the extent permitted under applicable law: any transaction that is related to WeChat by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction…
You won't be able to play overwatch anymore.
I think you're thinking of league of legends, unless they also have a controlling stake in Activision. I believe their stake a Activision is very much a minority position.
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#30An important note that nobody seems to be reporting on: this is only possible because Apple and Google have control over which apps are permitted on your device. The US government has no legal authority to ban publishing (including apps) in the US. They do, however, have the ability to regulate trade between the operators of the App Store (Apple) and the Play Store (Google), and app publishers, which is what they're…
> everyone should be up in arms about it
I feel the same way! I can’t understand why there aren’t bipartisan calls for Trump to knock it off. Is it that most people aren’t fully comprehending what’s going on, or are those of us upset about this being dramatic?