Trump’s U.S. ban on Tik Tok could split the internet - Pascal Coppens - China Insights

Title: Trump’s U.S. ban on Tik Tok could split the internet Website: CONTENT: This video explains that banning Tik Tok and Wechat from America, means that Trump is giving the go ahead to create a splinternet, and in doing so, ending our free internet globally. TRANSCRIPT TikTok the time bomb that will split the internet. Trump has been going on a crusade for the past weeks to ban every Chinese application from American soil. He doesn’t want them on any servers, he’s talking about a national security risk, a Trojan Horse. Basically he believes that these Chinese apps are a way for the Chinese Communist Party to steal data from American citizens; to spy on them and take that data and do some harm with it. And so Trump has decided to ban, a lot, actually all the Chinese apps, in America. The two main ones we have to talk about are WeChat and TikTok. WeChat in itself is the main communication channel in China, it