Republicans Set To Push Bill Forward That Will Allow Biden To Ban TikTok In The United States
According to reports, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will push a bill in coming weeks that will grant President Joe Biden authority to ban TikTok from the United States.
After expressing concern about the app to Bloomberg News last month, Michael McCaul (R – Texas) is pushing for a push. “gives the Chinese government a back door into our phones.”
Ex-President Donald Trump attempted to stop TikTok being used in the U.S. with a number of measures. However, these failed in court. Biden quickly quit the endeavor.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) Renewed TikTok was banned in December. Recently, media interviews revealed the security concerns the platform poses to the U.S.
“We’re gonna go back to TikTok, people say, you know, ‘Why do we care about what some 16-year-olds are doing?'” Rubio, the Ranking Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said. “I don’t think the threat is that some 16-year-old likes these cool videos that are on there, which I admit are- are attractive, obviously, because the artificial intelligence makes it so. It’s the massive amount of data that they’re collecting, not on one 16-year-old, not on a thousand 16 year-olds, but on millions and millions of Americans that give them commercial advantages, potentially the advantage of being able to shape American public opinion in a time of crisis, that- that just give them an extraordinary insights that allow them to steer the conversation in this country in any direction they want.”
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Even Senator Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-VA, agreed that TikTok is a threat to the U.S. “still responsible to the Communist Party.”
“138 million users in America use TikTok on a regular basis, average about 90 minutes a day,” Warner stated. “I’m sure your network would love to have 138 million Americans spending 90 minutes a day on your network. And I’m not saying that the TikTok or Communist Party is driving the- the videos you see. But the- the fact is, the algorithms that determine what you see on TikTok, is determined out of Beijing by China. And the proof is, if you look at what Chinese kids are seeing on their version of TikTok, which emphasizes science and engineering, versus what our kids and kids around the world are seeing, it is dramatically different.”
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