So what’s the big deal about WeChat that it gets banned?

[Speedy]

We Chat, They Watch
How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat’s Chinese Censorship Apparatus

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...ess-china/

[sekker]

I'm assuming everything on WeChat is sent to the Chinese government.

I'm ok with the ban.

[Rolando]

I'm ok with it, because as much as I dislike while still using Facebook and their model, at least its American and open to the world.

Any internet that ONLY China can control is a bad one. Tell China they can have TikTok here when Facebook, Google and the rest are available there...
https://stratechery.com/2020/india-jio-a...internets/

[SteveO]

Keep in mind it also makes yet another convenient "news diversion" to take the spotlight off all of Dump's other scandals, grafts and failures. He is a master at making all these go away with a simple tweet.

[vision63]

f**k the Trump administration and their agenda. I won't give them a sliver of political capitol. WeChat, TikTok etcetera can be better dealt with when we get a semblance of the true scope of the problem. We need sober untainted eyeballs not seeking to traitoriously politicize every detail of engagement.