The ban risks fragmenting an already fragile global internet and creating an American version of China's 'Great Firewall.'
A ban by President Donald Trump's administration on Chinese mobile apps such as TikTok and WeChat risks fragmenting an already fragile global internet and creating an American version of China's"Great Firewall."
"It's really an attempt to fragment the internet and the global information society along US and Chinese lines, and shut China out of the information economy," said Milton Mueller, a Georgia Tech University professor and founder of the Internet Governance Project. Using executive order authority, Trump gave Americans 45 days to stop doing business with the Chinese platforms, effectively setting a deadline for a potential, under-pressure sale of TikTok by its parent firm ByteDance to Microsoft.
"The digital divide between China and the West is coming down and countries caught in the middle will have to decide on which side they wish to remain," Windsor said on his Radio Free Mobile blog.Adam Segal, director of the digital and cyberspace policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the US actions point to a notion of"cyber sovereignty" long promoted by China and opposed by the United States.
Daniel Castro of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation said the US actions suggest"a serious risk of internet fragmentation" if carried out.
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