Political situation
Written by: Wu Zhuoan
2020-09-28 10:54
Last update date: 2020-09-28 10:54
The U.S. District Court in Washington issued a temporary injunction yesterday (27th), suspending execution of the TikTok mobile app.
Fang Baoqiao, honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Information Technology Chamber of Commerce, believes that Chinese technology companies such as TikTok and WeChat, when faced with the US government ban, will also use judicial means to confront the US government in court and delay the implementation of the ban, at least until the US presidential election. After that, we will then analyze whether the political environment of the general election has changed.
Fang Baoqiao believes that Trump is worried that his opponents or other countries may influence the election through social media.
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Fang Baoqiao analyzed that US President Trump has banned TikTok and other Mainland mobile apps for two reasons. One of them is that Trump is worried that his opponents or other countries may influence elections through social media.
Fang pointed out that social media was also a factor in Trump's victory in the election. Therefore, Trump is worried that TikTok and other social media will affect the election.
Fang Baoqiao believes that the US will also worry about China's use of mobile phone software permissions to obtain user personal data and conversation records. He thinks that this idea is understandable, but he asks: "Is it necessary to ban everything from the Internet?"
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