3.) Trump's Tiktok Deal: What Just Happened and Why Does It Matter?
In the current era, Social media has been becoming one of vital needed in human lives via diverse applications and devices. In line with this, Tiktok is one of the most popular social media apps around the world and teenagers creating the most amount of its fans. President trump announced to ban the app until a US buyer, buy it from Chinese company. Trump administration wants to ban the app because it believes its Chinese owners could be required to cooperate with the Chinese government, which in turn, could use the platform for espionage or to spread misinformation, threatening national security. After that the chines company potentially allowing China to track many personal information of American users. "Restricting internet and interfering with people's capacity to criticize power is not unprecedented on a global scale. It has happened in India, Iran and in different parts of Africa," said Nanjala Nyabola, an author and political analyst specializing in politics in the digital age. In my opinion Banning networks and punishing people because of using the social media shows how governments making decisions for us and nobody have total freedom in this history!
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