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Embed Audio The logo of Bytedance, the company which owns the short video app TikTok, or Douyin, is seen at its office in Beijing, China July 7, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] >TikTok made political scapegoat 美国威胁将禁用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. 美国政府威胁将要在该国禁用中国应用软件TikTok，这让一些用户和观察人士担心，美国针对这个短视频平台的做法是出于政治动机。 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，出于对国家安全的考虑，正考虑在美禁用北京字节跳动公司旗下的TikTok应用。 "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. 加州大学伯克利分校信息学院副院长史蒂文•韦伯称，华盛顿目前正在寻找理由显示它对中国的"强硬"程度，TikTok广受欢迎，因此成为了一个合适的目标。 | 
