TikTok Ban
TikTok Ban
TikTok ban
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In 2020, it will ban Chinese-owned enforcement. Today he opposes the Biden administration’s efforts in this direction.
By Lisa Friedman and Sapna Maheshwari
Four years ago, President Donald J. Trump denounced TikTok, the Chinese video-sharing app, as a risk to American national security. This week, as Trump prepares to take back the White House, he called it “a street for relaxed speech. ”
The comment is part of a brief he filed with the Supreme Court on Friday, asking the justices to suspend the ban on TikTok that goes into effect next month so he can “negotiate a resolution” to save the platform.
A law passed with broad bipartisan consensus and signed by President Biden in April requires ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, to sell the app to a non-Chinese company or face a ban in the United States due to the national security threat. and freedom of expression. . Array The judges are examining the company’s challenge to this law.
TikTok has said the law violates the First Amendment. It also says that its corporate parent is majority-owned by global investors.
Biden’s leadership and members of Congress argue that Chinese ownership of the platform undermines US security due to the massive amount of user tracking and data collection it carries out, and the threat that Beijing could use the application for propaganda purposes.
That was Mr. Trump’s position, too, before he became a political star on TikTok, where he now has more than 14.7 million followers.
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