美國威脅將禁用TikTok

TikTok made political scapegoat

美國威脅將禁用TikTok

A threat by the US government to ban the Chinese app TikTok in the US has stoked concern among some users and observers that such a move on the short-form video platform is politically motivated.

美國政府威脅將要在該國禁用中國應用軟件TikTok，這讓一些用戶和觀察人士擔心，美國針對這個短視頻平臺的做法是出於政治動機。

Citing threats to national security, the Trump administration signaled that it was considering banning TikTok, owned by Byte-Dance of Beijing, in the US.

特朗普政府近日暗示，出於對國家安全的考慮，正考慮在美禁用北京字節跳動公司旗下的TikTok應用。

"Washington DC right now is looking for reasons to show how 'tough' it can be on China, and Tik-Tok is a convenient target precisely because it is wildly popular," said Steven Weber, associate dean of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.

加州大學伯克利分校信息學院副院長史蒂文·韋伯稱，華盛頓目前正在尋找理由顯示它對中國的“強硬”程度，TikTok廣受歡迎，因此成爲了一個合適的目標。

Weber said some of the generalized frustration with and anger at social media companies, particularly Facebook, for security, is being directed at TikTok. However, these debates have become politicized, and the key issue is worsening US-China relations, he said.

韋伯表示，人們普遍對社交媒體公司，尤其是臉書的安全問題感到失望和憤怒，其中的一些矛頭被指向了TikTok。然而這些辯論已經政治化，關鍵問題是正在惡化的中美關係。

"My view is that the issue here isn't really about TikTok; it's about the overall deterioration in Sino-American relations. This week the villain is TikTok, last month it was Zoom, and before that Huawei," Weber said.

韋伯稱：“我認爲此事實際並非是關於TikTok的，而是關於中美關係的全面惡化。這周的反派是TikTok，上個月Zoom，此前則是華爲。”