1. Government fiat.

2. Network effect.

3. Winner takes all.

This goes a long way to explain WeChat’s dominance in China.

4.Wechat is simply better

lol! I'm not convinced yet!

Even Zuckerberg agrees on this point.

He said that? Source?

Easy to find, just search for "Zuckerberg WeChat" - most of the stories link back to statements he made in spring 2019.

Example:
https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-socia...r-advice-about

So it begins... hopefully this madness will be stopped by courts

I disagree with you. China often talk about reciprocity in international relations. Since FB and Twitter is banned in the Mainland, it's only fair that WeChat is banned as well.

This came through on my Youtube. What are the implications? While I don't trust having WeChat on my phone and don't really use it, this can be really inconvenient for a lot of people.

Yeah I'm not sure "China does it so it's okay" is a good line of reasoning

When they go low, we go lower :rolleyes:

Yes and no. WeChat is not a secured platform anyways.

There's nothing illegal or immoral with what I'm proposing.

That doesn't even make any sense. How are we going lower if we ban WeChat? That's ridiculous.

Tencent made a half hearted attempt to enter the US market about 8 years ago. They gave up and focused on South America. If the US blocks them, we won't lose any sleep, and trump will look good.

TT is a different beast. I don't fully understand it yet, but it has serious momentum.

Basically, during the course of the past 20 years, we went from actually calling each other to SMS, msn, and finally wx. Tik tok is the new frontier.