TikTok is another step closer to a ban in the US following Senate vote
After a swift vote in the House of Representatives earlier this week, the United States Senate has now passed the National Security Package which includes the controversial potential ban on TikTok in the US. Following the US legislative process, the bill is now heading to President Joe Biden who has previously committed to signing it into law.
Should that scenario play out TikTok parent company ByteDance would be left with two choices - divest into a US-based company in the next twelve months or face an effective ban on TikTok in the US. TikTok has been campaigning against the ban and forced sale on the premises of violating the free speech rights of its 170 million American users.
Members of the House and Senate have been campaigning against TikTok as a medium of “Chinese propaganda”, being “tied to foreign adversaries” and "providing significant amounts of user data to the Chinese Communist Party".
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- telestarcomgsm
- 27 Apr 2024
- Iby
Its the same krap reasoning of "national security" for why they want to keep FISA 702 going, its this mass manufacture of consent for these so called measures of "national security"
- raj
- 25 Apr 2024
- vbe
US: "China may collect US user data from TikTok". So US knows how social media apps collect user data! what about FB, Instagram, Google, Microsoft then??
- atichko
- 25 Apr 2024
- M{V
So if things are stored on US based servers, it's safe and cannot be copied to any other server abroad? That's a bit simplistic to believe that. But again, it's just that the US wants to be the ruler of the world and, in their minds, w...
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