Fri. 09/18 – WeChat Officially Banned On Sunday. TikTok Only Kinda Banned.

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🗓️ 18 September 2020

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The Commerce Department officially has brought the hammer down. WeChat is banned on Sunday. TikTok banned on Sunday too, but it’s complicated. PayTM is banned from the Google Play Store in India. Facebook decides that Facebook is too toxic for its own workers to use. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Fundrise.com/techmeme PayPal App Links: Trump to block downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday (CNBC) Google pulls India's Paytm app from Play Store for repeat policy violations (TechCrunch) iOS 14 default app settings automatically reset to Mail and Safari after reboot (9to5Mac) Apple is making Shazam a bigger part of your iPhone (The Verge) Facebook is cracking down on groups that give health advice and promote violence (CNBC) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Exclusive: The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke . . . Is Now Officially Broke (Forbes) ‘Interactive entertainment is the standard bearer of the entertainment business’ (Protocol) Remote Work Is Killing the Hidden Trillion-Dollar Office Economy (Marker) Your Teenage Email Account Is a Lost Time Capsule (One Zero) Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters (Vintage Computing And Gaming) This unheard Steve Jobs tape is part of an amazing trove of tech history (Fast Company) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, September 18th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.0	Today, the Commerce Department has officially brought the hammer down.
0:11.0	We Chat is banned on Sunday. Tic We-chat is banned on Sunday.
0:13.6	Tik-Tok is banned on Sunday also, but it's complicated.
0:17.4	Pay-T-M is banned from the Google Play Store in India.
0:21.0	Facebook decides that Facebook is too toxic for its own workers to use, and of course
0:25.6	the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.3	This morning, the Commerce Department announced that it will ban U.S. downloads of and
0:37.5	business transactions with Tik-Toc and we chat on Sunday. So are these stories done now? Probably not even close, quoting
0:48.1	CMBC. The announcement comes ahead of an expected statement Friday by President Donald Trump on whether or not the government
0:55.1	will approve a deal for Oracle to take a minority stake in Tik-Toc and become a trusted technology
1:00.0	partner for the company in the U.S. It's unclear if the Commerce
1:03.9	Department's announcement means there's no possibility of a deal going
1:06.9	through before this Sunday deadline. It could be an aggressive move from the
1:11.3	Trump administration to push for its original intention to
1:13.7	force Tik-Tok to become fully owned by a U.S. company.
1:17.0	The Commerce statement said that starting Sunday, U.S. companies will be banned from distributing
1:21.3	Wii-Chat and Tik-Toc, meaning the two major mobile app stores
1:25.0	run by Apple and Google will have to remove the apps from their libraries.
1:28.7	The statement also blocks U.S. companies from providing services through We-Chat.
1:32.4	Quote, for the purpose of transferring funds or processing companies from providing services through WeChat, quote,
1:32.6	for the purpose of transferring funds
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