Fri. 09/18 – WeChat Officially Banned On Sunday. TikTok Only Kinda Banned.

The Commerce Department officially has brought the hammer down. WeChat is banned on Sunday. TikTok banned on Sunday too, but it’s complicated. PayTM is banned from the Google Play Store in India. Facebook decides that Facebook is too toxic for its own workers to use. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Trump to block downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday (CNBC)
• Google pulls India's Paytm app from Play Store for repeat policy violations (TechCrunch)
• iOS 14 default app settings automatically reset to Mail and Safari after reboot (9to5Mac)
• Apple is making Shazam a bigger part of your iPhone (The Verge)
• Facebook is cracking down on groups that give health advice and promote violence (CNBC)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Exclusive: The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke . . . Is Now Officially Broke (Forbes)
• ‘Interactive entertainment is the standard bearer of the entertainment business’ (Protocol)
• Remote Work Is Killing the Hidden Trillion-Dollar Office Economy (Marker)
• Your Teenage Email Account Is a Lost Time Capsule (One Zero)
• Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters (Vintage Computing And Gaming)
• This unheard Steve Jobs tape is part of an amazing trove of tech history (Fast Company)