From this Sunday, 20 September, WeChat will not be available for money transfer and for other purposes in America. There are news that it will be permanently banned from US. Same is for TikTok, but from 12 November. US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said about TikTok that it will be available if certain safeguards are put into place.
US is not going to force their citizens to remove the tiktok but
they won’t be able to update the app. This indirectly will make it obsolete
after certain time.
There are many opportunities arising for national developers to
introduce some new idea for social plate farm.
“At the president’s
direction, we have taken significant action to combat China’s malicious
collection of American citizens’ personal data, while promoting our national
values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of US laws and
regulations,” he said in a statement.
The department said the actions will “protect
users in the US by eliminating access to these applications and significantly
reducing their functionality.”
The US government said its order, will “combat
China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data”.