TikTok Ban WHY in America!?
Let us revisit the circumstances of the year 2020 when President Trump announced a partial ban on the TikTok application, prohibiting individuals associated with the American government from engaging with the platform. This decision elicited widespread discontent within American society, viewed as an encroachment on personal liberties and freedom of expression. However, the situation is multifaceted. The United States is keen on asserting dominance over major social media platforms due to their significant impact on both global and local public discourse. The extensive popularity of this Chinese application, with approximately 149 million American users, has raised concerns among American policymakers who perceive it as a legitimate security threat. This nationalist perspective underscores America’s approach toward safeguarding its interests in the digital realm.
However, in reality, “TikTok” has become a widely popular application among the younger generation of American youth, challenging the long-standing technological dominance of Silicon Valley. Chinese companies, such as Huawei and “ByteDance,” are arousing concerns among American institutions about the potential loss of their interests and are being banned under the pretext of “threatening the national security of the United States.”
The application ban has more than one reason, especially as the US presidential elections approach, where this issue is being reopened as happened when President Trump announced the ban on TikTok while his administration tries to distract the American public from domestic issues, such as the spread of racism and hatred, the huge gap between social classes, and the government’s failure to combat COVID-19. At that time, do you think that the economic and security reasons were the main reason for the ban, or are there always some surprises hidden behind the scenes? Dear reader, please leave your opinion on this topic in the comments, and thank you for reading the article. ☺
