New menace ban on TikTok in the US. While the network social keep hitting son success is problematic as it is a platform offered by the Chinese company ByteDance. There are concerns that Beijing could use TikTok to spy on Western users. There are also concerns that TikTok could be used to influence elections through the content it may post.
Tiktok: a menace constant?
Net social always denied accusations of espionage and interference. But this does not stop the political sphere in the United States from being concerned about the success of this Chinese platform among American teenagers and young adults. And right now, a group of Republican and Democratic congressmen would like Washington to take a radical decision: ban TikTok in the US. On Tuesday, Senator Marco Rubio introduced a bipartisan bill (thus supported by both Democrats and Republicans) against TikTok, according to Reuters. In a press release, Marco Rubio’s team explains that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance “is required by Chinese law to provide app data to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).” The senator also comes from the risks of espionage mentioned by the director of the FBI, cybersecurity experts and members of the FCC (the organization that oversees telecommunications in the United States). And if the target is TikTok, the bill aims to ban “all transactions” with social media that could be influenced by China or Russia. “The federal government has yet to take any significant step to protect US users from menace from TikTok. These are not creative videos – this is an application that collects data from dozens of millions American children and adults,” said Marco Rubio.
TikTok Success, US Trouble
TikTok has already responded, according to a statement shared with Reuters. “It is alarming that instead of encouraging the administration to conclude son review of TikTok’s national security, some members of Congress have decided to push for a politically motivated ban that will not affect the national security of the United States in any way,” the network said in a statement. social. He says he continues to strengthen the security of his platform in the United States and will continue to update Congress on progress. Recently, TikTok has caused a lot of ink in the United States. For example, Texas banned TikTok from state government smartphones a few days ago. Remember that during the era of Donald Trump, Washington was already trying to ban TikTok in the US. Ultimately, this did not happen. But TikTok still had to partner with Oracle to provide a higher level of protection data for US users.
