{"638283":{"#nid":"638283","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"TikTok to Launch Court Action Over Donald Trump\u0027s Crackdown","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/milton-l-mueller\u0022\u003EMilton Mueller\u003C\/a\u003E, Professor in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in the article \u0026quot;TikTok to launch court action over Donald Trump\u0026#39;s crackdown,\u0026quot; published Aug. 22, 2020 in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Guardian\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMueller, whose research and scholarship deals with issues of internet governance, commented on the Trump administration\u0026#39;s August 6 executive order that would\u0026nbsp;prohibit Americans from using TikTok, a popular microvideo-sharing app. The move has raised speculation of an American company buying the app and taking over its operations. Mueller spoke to the geopolitical implications of the move.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe measures move away from the long-promoted American ideal of a global, open internet and could invite other countries to follow suit, analysts told AFP previously.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s really an attempt to fragment the internet and the global information society along US and Chinese lines, and shut China out of the information economy,\u0026rdquo; Milton Mueller, a Georgia Tech professor and founder of the Internet Governance Project said previously.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/aug\/23\/tiktok-to-launch-court-action-over-donald-trumps-crackdown\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-08-24 18:43:45","changed_gmt":"2020-08-24 19:15:23","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Christine Angelini","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/aug\/23\/tiktok-to-launch-court-action-over-donald-trumps-crackdown","dateline":{"date":"2020-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"582876":{"id":"582876","type":"image","title":"Milton Mueller","body":null,"created":"1476981182","gmt_created":"2016-10-20 16:33:02","changed":"1610725021","gmt_changed":"2021-01-15 15:37:01","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Public Policy professor Milton Mueller","file":{"fid":"222189","name":"Mueller_Web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mueller_Web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mueller_Web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5365409,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mueller_Web.jpg?itok=jBv6d4Qa"}}},"media_ids":["582876"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"167078","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}