#头条创作挑战赛 #
Four years ago, on May 15, 2019, pursuant to the presidential executive order signed by Trump, the U.S. Department of Commerce officially included Huawei and its 70 affiliates on the U.S. "Entity List", prohibiting Huawei from obtaining components and related technologies from U.S. companies without the approval of the U.S. government.
On August 17 of the following year, the United States once again escalated the ban, further tightening restrictions on Huawei's access to US technology, while adding Huawei's 38 subsidiaries in 21 countries around the world to the "Entity List"!
When domestic chips lagged far behind Japan and the United States, Huawei suffered irresistible pain and began the "darkest hour"
Now, 4 years later, ByteDance's "Tiktok" has once again been targeted by the US conquest!
Why is TikTok, a social platform, targeted by the United States? And since the beginning of this year, many European and American countries have begun to prohibit the government and other relevant departments from using TikTok!
In just 6 years, TikTok seized the wind and soared into the sky
TikTok is an Internet short video social platform owned by ByteDance, listed in May 2017.
TikTok corporate vision: Inspire Creativity and Bring Joy
This short video social platform, in the six years since its listing, has billions of users around the world, and the number of daily active users (DAU) worldwide has exceeded 1 billion; TikTok's daily activity has now become the world's highest daily active social APP, far surpassing Twitter, Facebook and other social platforms that have been established for decades;
Before TikTok, no short video platform could do such a pleasant thing, after TikTok was listed, most users would share and watch those videos that they liked and admired, which is an app that makes people relax enough and have no boundaries; Therefore, TikTok took only 6 years to directly become the world's largest app;
The daily activity is high, the impact is too great, and many countries have begun to ban TikTok
TikTok, an open and borderless APP, is also slowly developing and has encountered bigger problems!
Due to the disclosure of information, continuous publicity and big data promotion, some countries and regions began to realize that the impact of bad content on the growth of teenagers may intensify, so the government began to publicly enforce the use of APP!
On July 3, 2018, Tik Tok was banned in Indonesia due to adverse effects of content;
On October 9, 2020, the Pakistani government announced the ban on TikTok on the grounds that the content was offensive;
Meanwhile, in the United States, the Trump administration signed an executive order on August 6, 2020, ordering that if ByteDance does not sell TikTok within 45 days, it will be banned by the United States.
Behind the Trump administration's trumped-up presidential order, it undoubtedly sees the commercial market value of TikTok and TikTok's ability to retrieve more important data from data that may involve national privacy and security!
After three years of confrontation, TikTok is now facing an even bigger crisis
From the Trump administration in 20 years when the Trump administration asked ByteDance to divest its business in the United States, during which Microsoft, Walmart and other companies were extremely interested in its business acquisition, and then ByteDance and Oracle reached relevant agreements to become its "trusted technology provider";
In the following time, TikTok remained the target of bans in major U.S. states and many countries around the world;
On February 14, 2022, the Indian Express listed all apps banned by the Indian government since June 2020. The list shows that on June 29, 2020, the Indian government issued a ban on the TikTok app.
On April 21, 2022, the Afghan Taliban government banned the video-sharing app TikTok;
In December 2022, seven states in the United States successively announced that TikTok was banned from government equipment.
On February 27, 2023, the Canadian government announced that it would ban the use of the TikTok app on mobile devices used by government departments, citing the need to maintain government information security.
In February 2023, the European Parliament banned employees from using TikTok
In March 2023, the UK decided to ban TikTok on government phones
In March 2023, all devices connected to the New Zealand Parliament network were required to remove TikTok by the end of March 2023;
Many countries began to follow the rhythm of the United States and began to impose sanctions and bans on TikTok around the world, which for TikTok is not a simple security consideration, but a victim of political struggle;
TikTok will be heard in the US Congress, and the rogue America is empty
At the hearing, TikTok CEO Zhou Shouzi faced the "national security" issue mentioned by the US congressman, Zhou Shouzi said, "Banning TikTok is not the only option; We are firmly committed to security and look forward to gaining the confidence of the Committee and the United States Government. We also look forward to working with the Commission to develop clear and consistent industry rules." ”
At the same time, many parliamentarians mentioned that the negative content brought by Tiktok will have a certain negative impact on the physical and mental health of users;
At the five-hour hearing, Zhou Shouzi also made a number of principled commitments in the face of the long guns and short guns of the US House of Representatives and various media
First, safety will be made TikTok's top priority. Second, U.S. user data will be protected from unauthorized foreign access through firewalls. Third, TikTok will be a platform for free expression. Fourth, transparency will be maintained and third-party independent watchdogs will be allowed to remain accountable for platform commitments;
At the same time, behind this incident, China's Ministry of Commerce is also actively concerned, and the Ministry of Commerce said that it hopes that the United States can adhere to the implementation of a fair and just business environment, instead of using some trumped-up reasons and crimes to impose various sanctions on Chinese enterprises!
In recent years, the development of TikTok and its rapid occupation of the global market have undoubtedly made the US authorities and other countries that follow the United States feel great pressure and security considerations.
Therefore, how can TikTok continue to stabilize its global market in the next time, and can it successfully pass the US Congress? Of course, TikTok and Douyin also need to better manage their content quality and other issues to give users the best experience!