On August 6, President Trump passed an Executive Order banning U.S. transactions with ByteDance, the Chinese corporation that owns TikTok. The ban will come into effect 45 days from the issue of the order. In retaliation, TikTok recently filed a lawsuit against the executive order in a California court, naming the U.S. Department of Commerce, ...
ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, engaged in censoring anti-China content in Indonesia between 2018 and mid-2020 according to media reports. The exposé comes amid growing American concern about the presence of Chinese apps in the U.S. ByteDance censoring content ByteDance bought the Indonesian news aggregator BaBe in 2018 following a brief ban of ...
Citing national security concerns, President Trump issued an executive order (EO) on August 6, 2020, to prohibit any U.S. company or person from transacting with ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok and messaging app WeChat. The executive orders take effect within 45 days, after which the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, will further ...
In June, the Indian government banned 59 Chinese apps following border skirmishes between the militaries of the two nations. India’s action is one of the toughest ever taken against Chinese tech companies by a developing nation, and it will have damaging consequences on Beijing’s ambition to dominate the global technological sector. Chinese app effect According ...
Any business operating in China has to comply with the communist government’s stringent censorship policies. Home-grown TikTok is no exception. It censors any content that threatens the communist regime, which includes topics like democracy, Christianity, Tibet, and LGBT. Censoring content “The guidelines divide banned material into two categories: Some content is marked as a ...
Baidu, the leading search engine in China, has lost its spot in the list of the top five most valuable companies in the country. A recent surge in stock prices of Pinduoduo enabled the 4-year-old startup to claim the fifth spot in the rankings, pushing Baidu down to sixth. Eclipsing Baidu Pinduoduo is China’s third-largest ...
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