Influencers take stock of life and dreams if U.S. bans TikTok

by Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway

Cassidy Jacobson posted a video of herself dancing on the well-known app TikTok when she was 13 years old. LOS ANGELES( Reuters )

She had no idea that six years later, Cassidy_ J may contain 1.5 million followers on the short-form video platform thanks to her passion for dancing and hair care.

Jacobson envisions starting her own wavy hair care line and inspiring others to adore their natural tresses using her triumph on TikTok, an application used by 150 million Americans.

As more lawmakers push the Biden administration to outlaw the well-known Chinese-owned social media app in the United States, claiming the game could be used for data selection, content repression, and harm to children’s mental health, that desire and those of other TikTok creators may be dashed.

The Biden administration reportedly demanded last week that its Foreign owners sell their holdings or risk a restrictions, according to TikTok.

If the Taiwanese organization ByteDance, which owns TikTok, is no longer permitted to offer the game in the United States, Jacobson is getting ready for the possibility that she might have to find content elsewhere.

According to Jacobson, TikTok is currently somewhat steep, and the objective of a content creator is to expand across channels in order to have sagacious communities.” You don’t just want to concentrate on one game ,” he said to Reuters.

The celebrity is making sure to expand her content, whether it’s by producing all new article for YouTube reels or by taking her TikTok posts and transferring it to Instagram.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced challenging questions from politicians at a contentious congressional hearing on Thursday.

Chew added that the game was” free from any use” and that” we do not increase or replace content at the demand of the Chinese authorities.”

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According to Freedom House Research Director for Technology and Democracy Allie Funk, there are less serious choice than outright banning the game.

She told Reuters that” Congress could pass a strong private law and strengthen requirements for businesses to be more open about their procedures and techniques.”

She recommends a detailed privacy act to restrict TikTok data collection and regular audits to guarantee transparency.

Most TikTok influencers are supporting saving without prohibition, even though it is still unclear whether the bill introduced by lawmakers to give the Commerce Department the authority to ban international technologies will pass.

The public holding ginormous companies responsible, whether they are based in the United States or China, is the only way, according to Jacobson,” There needs to be safety for users on apps.”

She thinks that somebody suffers when someone violates their privacy, regardless of the nation.

That is a sentiment shared by some Democratic politicians, some of whom are concerned about President Joe Biden’s political repercussions for outlawing something that is so cherished by many small voters.

A restrictions, according to Trans Chicana TikTok artist NaomiHearts, who is known for her self-love article, may make her less confident in Biden, whom she supported in 2020.

Naomi, who declined to give her complete name, said,” We put our trust in another, in my mind there’s no great lawmaker.” However, I put him in practice because I supported what he stood for, and as time passes, this, in my opinion, will have an impact on a lot of people viewpoints.

Since TikTok has provided her with programs that she hasn’t found somewhere, Naomi said she is a little hesitant to switch to other platforms.

Supporters of TikTok say it offers livelihoods, avenues for economic change, and a sense of community in addition to attraction and fans.

It’s crazy, she said, to be able to earn six figures a year thanks to TikTok and brands reaching out to me because of that app because they ( society ) don’t really care about us as trans people.

( Sheila Dang, David Shepardson, Mary Milliken, and Aurora Ellis provided additional reporting, as did Danielle Broadway and Rollo Ross. )

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