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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin YouTube lifted a ban on Donald Trump on Friday, allowing the former president to post new content on the video sharing site. Trump had been banned from posting new videos on the platform after he directed a failed coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. “Starting today, the Donald J. Trump channel is no longer restricted and can upload new content. We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, while balancing the chance for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run up to an election,” YouTube said in a tweet on Friday . “This channel will continue to be subject to our policies, just like any other channel on YouTube,” the company continued. Trump was banned from YouTube after trying to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election by Congress with a mob of thousands that had assembled in Washington D.C. for a so-called “Stop the Steal” rally. The … [Read more...] about YouTube Lifts Ban On Donald Trump After Evaluating ‘Risk Of Real-World Violence’

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin On Thursday, the UK government announced that beginning immediately TikTok would be banned on government devices. This would bring the UK in line with the United States and the European Commission, while also reflecting the deteriorating relations with Beijing. This was a surprise move as it was a complete reversal from the UK's previous position on the Chinese-owned social video-sharing app. The move also came as Washington called for ByteDance – the owner of TikTok – to sell the app or face a possible ban in the United States. The decision followed a review that was conducted by government cybersecurity experts that began last November. The app will now be banned on all government devices, but not any personal mobile phones. The UK had previously taken a more relaxed view of the app, which is popular with millions of young people as well as celebrities and influencers around the world. According to reports from … [Read more...] about Security Experts Weigh In On UK’s Ban Of TikTok On Government Devices

India’s 150 million users were forced to stop using the Chinese-owned app in 2020. But an internal tool reviewed by Forbes showed that ByteDance and TikTok employees can still mine some of their most sensitive data. One employee called it “NSA-To-Go.” By Alexandra S. Levine , Forbes Staff A lmost three years after TikTok’s largest market, India, banned the Chinese-owned social media app over geopolitical tensions, troves of personal data of Indian citizens who once used TikTok remain widely accessible to employees at the company and its Beijing-based parent, ByteDance, Forbes has learned. The revelation comes as President Joe Biden’s administration threatens to ban the platform used by more than 100 million Americans if TikTok’s Chinese owner does not sell its stake. Officials in the highest levels of the U.S. government see a blanket TikTok ban as a possible solution to the country’s national security concerns about the potential for China to surveil or … [Read more...] about India Banned TikTok In 2020. TikTok Still Has Access To Years Of Indians’ Data.

The British horror film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has been cancelled by Hong Kong prompting speculation that the movie was pulled because of the resemblance between the character and Chinese President Xi Jinping . It’s not the first time China has scrapped a movie. US netizens made such comparisons between Winnie the Pooh and President Xi when the latter visited former US President Barack Obama in America in 2013 and it stuck. The 69 year old leader of the Chinese Communist Party is said to be sensitive to the resemblance The movie, based on English author AA Milne’s cartoon creation Winnie the Pooh, has been subverted into a British slasher film. It was scheduled to be released in the former British colony tomorrow, reported Aljazeera. However, Moviematic, the organizer of a pre-release screening of the film, announced yesterday that the screening had been cancelled due to “technical reasons.” VII Pillars Entertainment, the local distributor of the film, also … [Read more...] about Winnie the Pooh movie banned in Hong Kong amid President Xi links (video)

A U.S. ban on the world’s most popular social media app would affect far more American businesses and people than just the 150 million using the platform here. C asey Evertsen drove down a suburban Utah street lined with trash bins, speaking into his phone’s camera as he gave a tour of the brightly-colored truck he uses for his garbage can-cleaning business. “If you like seeing dirty stuff get cleaned and watching how cool stuff works, follow along,” he said in the video shared on TikTok. “Let’s clean some bins!” Evertsen’s service, Bin Blasters , had for a whole year struggled to get traction through Facebook and Instagram. So taking a cue from his teenage daughter, he decided to try promoting it on TikTok instead. On his eighth video, just one month in, Evertsen “blew up.” "I went out and just started cleaning bins that day, started on our route, and I look at my phone like an hour later, and there's 17,000 views,” he recalled. “Then it just got in the millions.” … [Read more...] about How A TikTok Ban Would Deal A Blow To Creators, Businesses And The American Economy

India’s 150 million users were forced to stop using the Chinese-owned app in 2020. But an internal tool reviewed by Forbes showed that ByteDance and TikTok employees can still mine some of their most sensitive data. One employee called it “NSA-To-Go.” By Alexandra S. Levine , Forbes Staff A lmost three years after TikTok’s largest market, India, banned the Chinese-owned social media app over geopolitical tensions, troves of personal data of Indian citizens who once used TikTok remain widely accessible to employees at the company and its Beijing-based parent, ByteDance, Forbes has learned. The revelation comes as President Joe Biden’s administration threatens to ban the platform used by more than 100 million Americans if TikTok’s Chinese owner does not sell its stake. Officials in the highest levels of the U.S. government see a blanket TikTok ban as a possible solution to the country’s national security concerns about the potential for China to surveil or … [Read more...] about India Banned TikTok In 2020. TikTok Still Has Access To Years Of Indians’ Data

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline India banned TikTok in June 2020 citing national security concerns after a military clash with China, opening the door for Instagram to dominate and some TikTok duplicates to suddenly emerge as major players in the vacated market. Key Facts Shortly after India banned TikTok, Instagram saw a surge of downloads, propelling it to become the country’s most popular social media app by 2021, up from No. 6 in 2019, and to surpass TikTok in global downloads by the fourth quarter of 2021. Key to Instagram’s success in India was Reels, its algorithm-based, endlessly scrolling vertical video feed that closely resembles TikTok’s For You Page and other TikTok copycats like YouTube Shorts and Snapchat Spotlight. Both Instagram and YouTube bet on Shorts and Reels as potential TikTok alternatives: They tested these features in India after the country banned TikTok before launching them worldwide. … [Read more...] about Here’s What Happened When This Massive Country Banned TikTok

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline A trio of American technology giants could tack on some $431 billion in market value if the U.S. bans TikTok, according to Bernstein analysis published Thursday, as the issues posed by the wildly popular Chinese-owned social media app take center stage in Washington. Key Facts Alphabet, Meta, and Snap, each of which operate short-form video platforms rivaling TikTok, would all be in line for major stock jumps if the U.S. moves forward with a TikTok shutdown, according to a note to clients Thursday from Bernstein analysts led by Mark Shmulik. Shares of YouTube Shorts parent Alphabet could jump as much as 20% should TikTok users need to flock to a replacement for their social media fix, shares of Instagram Reels parent Meta could be in line for as much as a 30% gain and shares of Snapchat Spotlight parent Snap could surge as much as 50%, according to Bernstein forecasts, using price-to-earnings multiple … [Read more...] about Banning TikTok Would Boost Alphabet, Meta And Snap—Here’s How Much Their Stocks Could Jump

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Some politicians, legal experts and free speech advocates fear a potential U.S. TikTok ban would violate the First Amendment and clash with legal precedent that protects the “vast democratic forums of the Internet.” Key Facts The American Civil Liberties Union and other free speech organizations are urging lawmakers not to ban TikTok on free speech grounds, citing the app’s wide usage as a source of information and a forum for political discussion and artistic expression. First Amendment advocates fear a TikTok ban would set a dangerous precedent for how strictly the government could regulate online behavior, with Jameel Jaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, calling social media bans “a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.” The government would need to demonstrate data privacy and national security concerns cannot be addressed in a narrower … [Read more...] about A TikTok Ban May Violate Constitution, First Amendment Advocates Say

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin TikTok is widely popular among the younger generation around the world, and the large majority of TikTok users are between the ages of 18 and 34. There is also little denying that older folks likely simply don't get it. For those reasons, TikTok could be seen as just the latest youth/pop culture fad that is being targeted unfairly. History Lesson In 1921, legislators in 37 states introduced almost one hundred film censorship bills aimed to address the threat from motion pictures, which lawmakers and various religious and civic groups warned was introducing morally questionable content on the masses. In the 1950s, German-American psychiatrist and author Fredric Wertham published his book Seduction of the Innocent , which asserted that comic books caused youth to become delinquents. Tipper Gore, the wife of then-Senator Al Gore (D-Tenn.), co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) in the 1980s with the stated … [Read more...] about TikTok Ban Isn’t About Targeting Youth Culture – But It Kinda Is