{"id":3462,"date":"2020-09-19T00:15:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T00:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2020-09-19T00:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T00:15:28","slug":"trump-administration-formally-bans-tiktok-wechat-apps-from-online-stores-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3462","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Formally Bans TikTok, WeChat Apps from Online Stores in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced that it will, as threatened,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/18\/tech\/tiktok-download-commerce\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">implement a ban<\/a>&nbsp;on the TikTok and WeChat apps, thus censoring tools Americans use to communicate each other while blaming it all on China&#8217;s Communist rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Sunday, online mobile or app stores will not be able to distribute or update either WeChat or Tiktok. WeChat will further be banned from processing payments within the United States. This enactsPresident Donald Trump&#8217;s August executive orders, in which he claimed that the two apps threaten the United States due to their parent company&#8217;s&nbsp;ties to the Chinese government.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"KWKbtjG0xK\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/09\/18\/trump-administration-formally-bans-tiktok-wechat-apps-from-online-stores-in-u-s\/\">Trump Administration Formally Bans TikTok, WeChat Apps From Online Stores in U.S.<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Trump Administration Formally Bans TikTok, WeChat Apps From Online Stores in U.S.&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/09\/18\/trump-administration-formally-bans-tiktok-wechat-apps-from-online-stores-in-u-s\/embed\/#?secret=i3pSsoIC5D#?secret=KWKbtjG0xK\" data-secret=\"KWKbtjG0xK\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced that it will, as threatened, implement a ban on the TikTok and WeChat apps, thus censoring tools Americans use to communicate each other while blaming it all on China&#8217;s Communist rule.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday, online mobile or app stores will not be able to distribute or update either WeChat or Tiktok. WeChat will further be banned from processing payments within the United States. This enacts President Donald Trump&#8217;s August executive orders, in which he claimed that the two apps threaten the United States due to their parent company&#8217;s ties to the Chinese government.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,221,88,170],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-tiktok","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}