What Does Trump Have Against TikTok?
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What Does Trump Have Against TikTok?
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#2Having a fool at the helm often yields such outcomes.
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#3Or maybe it believes that those who don't believe in a global internet shouldn't benefit from it.
The first thing China did was putting up the Great Firewall.
Reciprocity is overdue and important.
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#4Or US believes in trade reciprocity
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#5Forget TikTok and the US for a moment - just given the actions of China, the EU, and India, is there even such a thing as a global internet anymore?
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#6No. Banning TikTok at most suggests that the current US administration no longer believes in a global internet.
That administration might be out of office as soon as January 2021.
Edit: Comment submitted before title was changed. Title was originally: "Banning TikTok suggests that the US no longer believes in a global internet."
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#7Is it true that we (not HN, but US as a geopolitical entity) have ever believed in a global internet? Seems naive. We’ve believed in the American internet purveyed by America to the world. Countries like China deployed their firewalls precisely because it is largely an American internet out there. Banning TikTok as delivered by a frenemy that sees us as its key rival for the next two hundred years makes more sense with that context.
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#8No. Banning TikTok at most suggests that the current US administration no longer believes in a global internet. That administration might be out of office as soon as January 2021. Edit: Comment submitted before title was changed. Title was originally: "Banning TikTok suggests that the US no longer believes in a global internet."
Ya, let's not lump in all of the US as anti-global-internet with the orange man in the oval office's mission vs China.
The US should continue to be part of the global group of countries with the idea of an open internet vs copying China's great firewall practice.
I realize this is hard externally with Trump and perhaps internally with Pai but they do not represent the majority
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#9Doesn't China ban a bunch of US services?
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#10Not sure if we should extrapolate from one White House administration as to what the US believes.