抢先一步，TikTok封禁特朗普

尽管几个月来，特朗普政府一直在努力禁止该平台，或精心策划将其美国业务从中国母公司中剥离、出售给美国企业，但TikTok仍然在美国活跃着。这场禁令风波从2020年8月开始，当时，特朗普签署了一项行政命令，称出于国家安全考虑，将限制TikTok在美国的业务。（TikTok反复否认美国政府所谓的“在美国拥有1亿月活用户是一种安全风险”的说法。）

但是上周末，仍然在美国运营的TikTok扭转了局面——该软件证实，正在删除特朗普演讲的一些视频，因为它们违反了该公司的“不实信息政策”。

"Hateful behavior and violence have no place on TikTok. Content or accounts that seek to incite, glorify, or promote violence violate our Community Guidelines and will be removed," TikTok said in a statement.

The U.S. Commerce Department has repeatedly extended a deadline it set for ByteDance to either complete the sale of TikTok's U.S. business or face a U.S. ban. On Dec. 4, the most recent deadline passed without fanfare. The TikTok sale talks are still ongoing; the Commerce Department set no new deadline; and the app is still functioning in the U.S. perfectly well.

Naomi Xu Elegant 2021年01月12日

几个月以来，美国总统唐纳德•特朗普一度想要禁止中国科技公司字节跳动旗下广受欢迎的短视频应用程序TikTok，理由是该软件的所有权在中国，因而对美国的国家安全构成了威胁。

除了删除总统演讲的视频外，TikTok还禁止了某些与袭击国会大厦有关的主题标签，例如#stopthesteal（停止盗窃选票），这是一项旨在颠覆美国总统选举结果的运动，这些人坚定地支持特朗普自己一再宣称的虚假说法，即认为特朗普赢得了大选。

For now, TikTok's U.S. users continue to enjoy the platform, but those who want to watch selected Trump speeches will have to look elsewhere.

美国商务部一再延长为字节跳动设定的最后期限——即要么完成TikTok在美国业务的出售、要么面临美国禁令的最后期限。12月4日，最新的期限平静地过去了。但TikTok销售谈判仍在进行中；商务部也没有再设定新的期限；而且该应用程序在美国仍然可以正常运行。

"As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States," Trump said in August. The same month, he said TikTok "can't be controlled, for security reasons, by China. Too big. Too invasive."

美国官员声称，TikTok允许中国政府访问用户数据，审查政治话题，并可能被用来散布不实信息。

For months, U.S. President Donald Trump has tried to ban TikTok, the wildly popular short-video app owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance, on the grounds that the app's Chinese ownership poses a national security threat.

目前，TikTok的美国用户仍然能够活跃在这一平台上，但是那些想要观看特朗普演讲的人将不得不另谋他处了。（财富中文网）

TikTok and TikTok content creators filed various lawsuits against Trump's executive order. In October and December, two federal judges ruled in separate cases against the administration's ban, effectively blocking the government from carrying it out. On Dec. 28, the Trump administration filed an appeal against the December injunction.

同时，字节跳动也在想方设法应对特朗普的命令，开始寻找一家美国公司，既可以收购TikTok的美国业务、又能够规避对该软件在美国运营的禁令。8月，在有报道称微软（Microsoft）可能会收购TikTok时，特朗普称TikTok为“抢手货”，并要求压低美国财政部给TikTok出售案的报价。但是甲骨文（Oracle）和沃尔玛（Walmart）击败了微软，在TikTok的收购案中取得领先地位。（特朗普说，那笔交易也得到了他的“祝福”。）

美国商务部一再延长为字节跳动设定的最后期限——即要么完成TikTok在美国业务的出售、要么面临美国禁令的最后期限。12月4日，最新的期限平静地过去了。但TikTok销售谈判仍在进行中；商务部也没有再设定新的期限；而且该应用程序在美国仍然可以正常运行。

TikTok is still alive in the U.S. despite the Trump administration's monthslong effort to ban the platform or orchestrate the sale of its U.S. operations from its Chinese parent. The push started in August, when Trump signed an executive order restricting TikTok's U.S. operations over national security concerns. (TikTok has repeatedly denied U.S. government claims that it is a security risk in the U.S., where it has 100 million monthly active users.)

Trump doesn't have a personal TikTok account, but TikTok's restrictions on the President fall in line with actions by Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, all of which suspended Trump's accounts on their platforms following last week's Capitol Hill attack, which Trump incited.

抢先一步，TikTok封禁特朗普