Trump Jr. Pushes Congress To Pass ‘Hardcore’ Anti-China Restrictions To Protect U.S. Citizens Online

Donald Trump Jr. demanded that Congress ban TikTok, a Chinese-controlled company from the U.S.A. “hardcore” All social media companies would be prohibited from providing private data to the Chinese Communist Party.

Trump Jr. makes these remarks following a bipartisan committee of senators introduced This week, the Restricting Security Threats That Risk Information and Communication Technology (RESTRICT Act) was passed. It would have allowed the United States to ban TikTok as well as take actions against foreign adversaries. It is the legislation empowers Department of Commerce will review and prevent transactions involving information communications technology (ICT).

“We’ve got to figure this TikTok thing out,” Trump Jr. spoke in an exclusive statement for The Daily Wire “But I got to thinking, well hold on just a second, a lot of these social media companies have China issues and if we’re going to do something here, it needs to apply to all of them.”

Trump Jr. spoke to The Daily Wire following his public call for Congress to act to block all U.S. social media companies’ user data going to China.

“While we’re going hardcore on TikTok regulations, how about NO American data flowing through China for ANY social media company?!” Trump Jr. “No letting Facebook, IG, Twitter or anyone else off the hook for data security and privacy in whatever ends up happening.”

We’re focusing on TikTok regulations. But how about no American data being sent through China to any social media company? Facebook, IG or Twitter should not be allowed to take responsibility for privacy and data security. pic.twitter.com/Tppke4NrhO

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 7, 2023

Two former Trump administration officials — Matt Pottinger, deputy national security adviser; and David Feith, deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs — wrote a piece The New York Times, at the end 2021. It explained that Xi Jinping, a Chinese communist dictator is trying to create the Chinese Communist Party. “the world’s most powerful data broker.”

Their explanation was that Beijing acts in an aggressive manner to attain this goal. “exerting new extraterritorial power over global data flows and putting foreign companies operating in China in a legal bind — all while absorbing other countries’ data by means licit and illicit.”

Facebook announced in 2018 that they had “data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies” That date backs to 2010. The New York Times reported Facebook provided the following: “private access to some user data” Chinese telecom giant Huawei has been banned by the United States because it is a serious security threat to the country’s national security. This report stated that China had collected data from Facebook about its users. “religious and political leanings, work and education history and relationship status.”

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China’s sophisticated internet-data surveillance network is being used to mine U.S. Social Media companies such as Facebook users data. “to equip its government agencies, military and police with information on foreign targets,” The Washington Post reported.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner and Ranking Member Marco Rubio (both Republicans) have sent an a letter Last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanded answers from a number of questions regarding the four data-sharing agreements it made with Chinese entities.

According to the senators, the company knew that China 90,000. developers could have access to large amounts of user data for several years. Senators claimed that China was also able to access sensitive user data. “user IDs, photos, as well as contact information and even private messages.”

In company documents, Facebook admitted that hostile foreign countries had gained access to U.S. private user data. “known to collect data for intelligence targeting and cyber espionage,” According to senators.

Ex-President Donald Trump initiated executive actions to ban TikTok in the U.S. towards the end his term. However, the effort failed. abandoned Shortly after Biden’s election, President Joe Biden took office.

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