Posted on 01/01/2024 9:14:51 PM PST by NoLibZone
Momentum seemed to be on their side of US lawmakers this year to stop 150 million Americans from using TikTok. What happened?
Banning TikTok in the US seemed almost inevitable at the start of 2023. The previous year saw a trickle of legislative actions against the short-form video app, after dozens of individual states barred TikTok from government devices in late 2022 over security concerns. At the top of the new year, the US House followed suit, and four universities blocked TikTok from campus wifi.
The move would effectively require TikTok and WeChat to shut down in the US or find new owners within 45 days. Trump claims the apps are a security concern because they are based in China and thus prone to data requests from the Chinese government. Microsoft is already reportedly in talks to purchase TikTok for billions.
But questions remain about what that ban would look like, and how its effects will play out. Here are the key concerns:
What exactly did Trump’s order say? Trump’s executive order stated that apps from China “threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States” and that after 45 days the US will prohibit “any transaction by any person” with ByteDance Ltd, the parent company of TikTok.
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TikTok doesn't offer free speech.
The Repubs are big cowards . That is why. Why are we still funding NPR/PBS after all these years. They are not even trying to hide their bias anymore.
Trump could have but did he?
My ultra leftist socialist sister-in-law uses tic-toc, she married an Aussie and lived there for over 20 years. Leftist Feminist. We don’t get along much and I kept my mouth shut about the app.
“The Guardian” is “The Warmongers Gazette”.
Montana passed a TikTok ban that is now in court.
That’s why the Chinese “spy balloon” incident was staged there by “Deep State” IMHO.
Facebook needs to ban those disgusting porno pictures that scroll across top reels.
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