Two more Chinese mobile apps have been banned from use on South Dakota state government devices or on state government time.
Governor Larry Rhoden signed an executive order banning DeepSeek and RedNote.
DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company. RedNote is a Chinese social media app and e-commerce platform that serves as an alternative to TikTok.
Rhoden says his administration will “continue to defend South Dakota citizens from Evil Foreign Governments, including the Chinese Communist Party.” He said similar to the bans on Bytedance and Tencent, this ban extends to both use on state devices and state employees’ use on their personal devices while on state time.
The South Dakota Bureau of Information and Telecommunications keeps a publicly accessible list of banned entities, which you can find on their website.
Former Governor Kristi Noem signed an executive order (EO 2023-06) in May 2023, that gave the Commissioner of BIT the power to ban any other application, website, platform, service or product whose use or access would be detrimental to state security.
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