By Scott Powell, Author of Rediscovering America
In his first term, President Trump came to understand that
TikTok was a creation of Bytedance, a company controlled by the Chinese
government - specifically the CCP. So, in August of 2020, he signed an
executive order requiring the CCP-controlled ByteDance to divest TikTok. A
month later that order got blocked by a court injunction. But that was reversed
by the Biden administration in 2021. In delaying the banning and dismantling of
TikTok, President Trump needs to determine whether the kind of weapon the CCP
has created in TikTok can be rendered benign, even if it becomes wholly owned
by an American company. The Chinese are notorious for welding backdoors into
their systems as they did with Huawei. We chose not to take a chance with
Huawei, and we should not take a chance with TikTok when vestiges of Chinese
deceptive engineering could still be present and operated. [more...]
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