Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg shoots himself in the foot so often you wonder he can walk. But this time is extreme – he’s apparently helped convince Trump that Tik Tok and other Chinese-owned apps are dangerous and need to be banned.
Trump, never an analytical thinker and open to anything that
he sees helping with re-election, has responded with bans on a number of
Chinese-owned apps.
The official Trumpian reasoning is that, because the apps
are controlled by a dangerous foreign nation, they could be used for nefarious
purposes.
Hmmm. Remembering that what’s “foreign” depends on where you live, and that a lot of countries see the US, especially under Trump, as recklessly dangerous, where else might this principle apply?
