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Biden Order Declares TikTok Not Quite a Threat to U.S. National Security, Yet
The U.S. Biden administration passed an executive order on Wednesday that seeks to create a “criteria-based” framework for establishing whether foreign-owned apps present national security risks or not. In so doing, the regulation overturned three executive orders previously signed by former U.S. President Trump that took a decidedly more aggressive approach to the issue.
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Scomo’s Post Responding to China Has Been Removed From WeChat
In the escalating social media battle between Australia and China, an attempt from Scomo to reach out to the users of WeChat has been hamstrung. On Wednesday night, users noticed that a post from Australian prime minister Scott Morrison’s account on the Chinese social media platform WeChat had been removed. 【突发】澳大利亚总理莫里森的官方微信账号昨天发布的关于“澳大利亚士兵虚假图片”的文章被微信删除，称该内容“涉及使用煽动、误导、违背客观事实的文字、图片、视频等，捏造社会热点、歪曲历史事件、混淆公众视听”。 pic.twitter.com/KNBZu4O9ny — ABC中文 (@ABCChinese)…
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Turns Out WeChat Won’t Be Banned Immediately, Either
What is banned is never really banned, it seems. A judge in California has prevented the Trump administration from blocking WeChat, which the Commerce Department planned to ban from U.S. app stores, on the very day it was supposed to be banned.
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DoJ Still Not Sure Why It’s Mad at WeChat
In what’s the latest update to the Trump Administration’s… questionable plans for getting China-based apps off of U.S. soil, Justice Officials are now clarifying that any future crackdown on WeChat won’t explicitly target people who only download the chat platform for… chatting. This update comes courtesy of court docs filed late yesterday responding to a…