By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-19 04:44:06 | Updated at 2025-01-19 08:20:11
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Could TikTok ever be banned in the UK too?
BBC News ^ | Jan. 18, 2025 | Joe Tidy
Posted on 01/18/2025 8:20:38 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Analysts have suggested it is "just matter of time" until the US ban on TikTok spreads to allied countries and beyond - as long as the Trump administration presses ahead with it.
The app will be banned in America from Sunday after US lawmakers ruled it was a national security risk because of owner ByteDance's ties to the Chinese government - ties it denies.
Incoming President Trump has indicated though that he is opposed to the ban and will find a way to reverse it.
If the US ban goes ahead, experts point to the previous ousting of Chinese and Russian tech companies on national security grounds as a potential blueprint for how the TikTok ban might spread around the world.
"There are big parallels between TikTok and what happened with China's Huawei and Russia's Kaspersky that indicates it's just a matter of time until a creeping ban takes affect," says Emily Taylor, Editor of the Cyber Policy Journal.
In both cases these companies were accused by the US of being a threat to national security - but no smoking gun was ever revealed by cyber security authorities.
The same has happened with TikTok.
Under President Trump, Kaspersky's flagship antivirus software product was banned from civil and military computers in the US after accusations arose in 2017 that it was used by the Kremlin in a hacking incident that was never proven.
The UK followed almost immediately and one by one other allies fell into line with restrictions, warnings or bans.
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To: MinorityRepublican
2 posted on 01/18/2025 8:23:55 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
To: MinorityRepublican
Banning in US and UK....
You say you want a revolution....
You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You’d better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.
3 posted on 01/18/2025 8:24:17 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
To: Nextrush
The war on social media is all over the world. France still has Pavel Durov the founder of Telegram in custody twisting his arm to do what the “Deep State” wants.
Due to social media, governments around the world is forced to be accountable.
Get rid of social media, it'll be business as usual.
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