Trump’s TikTok ban could mean Americans have less freedom on the internet, just like in China, experts warn

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Trump’s plan to ban TikTok from US app stores by Sunday is an unprecedented move — and it could make the US internet more closely resemble China’s heavily-censored internet, experts say. The ban could force users to try to download TikTok and WeChat through secretive backchannels, or attempt to keep using them until the inability to update the apps makes them unusable, experts told Business Insider. Civil rights groups have criticized the ban as a potential violation of American users’ First Amendment rights, and the ban is likely to face a legal challenge on those grounds. But other experts said...