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Executive Order 13942 is an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on August 6, 2020. It directed the Secretary of Commerce to prohibit all transactions between anyone under the jurisdiction of the United States and ByteDance , the parent company of social media platform TikTok .
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media.Communication can be private or take place in virtual communities called "servers".
TikTok, known in mainland China and Hong Kong [3] as Douyin (Chinese: 抖音; pinyin: Dǒuyīn; lit. 'Shaking Sound'), [ 4 ] is a short-form video-hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance .
The lawsuit against the Trump administration's order—formally filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on August 24—contended that the administration's order was motivated by Trump's efforts to boost re-election support through protectionist trade policies aimed at China; that TikTok and ByteDance were ...
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
TikTok v. Trump was a lawsuit before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia filed in September 2020 by TikTok as a challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order of August 6, 2020. The order prohibited the usage of TikTok in five stages, the first being the prohibition of downloading the application.
On 6 August 2020, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders, one directed at TikTok and one at WeChat. The TikTok order dictated that within 45 days from its signing (20 September 2020) that it would ban transactions involving the TikTok app with ByteDance, effectively banning the TikTok app in the United States, under threat of penalty.
On January 13, many U.S. TikTok users began downloading and switching to the Chinese app Xiaohongshu (or RedNote), [1] [2] [3] which is similar to Instagram and TikTok, in protest of the ban. [4] The hashtag "#tiktokrefugee" and the term TikTok refugee went viral on RedNote, [5] [6] being used by both American and Chinese users.