U.S. government efforts to ban TikTok over national security grounds , once see a pie - in - the - sky pipe aspiration , are looking more and more likely by the hebdomad , especially afterCongress browbeat TikTok ’s CEO for five hours last week . That say , we ’ve been here before . Various players in the federal regime have attempt to ban TikTok before , all unsuccessfully .
In just three short months , at least four new bills have hit the House and Senate demanding , in various forms , a national prohibition of the Chinese - owned app . TikTok is alreadybanned on all Union government machine . More and morestates have passed lawsdoing the same thing on a local level . These new sets of bill would take thing much further , however , and essentially expunge an app TikTok say is presently used by 150 million Americans — one in two people in the land . That backlash to such a forbiddance is difficult to suppose .
Though sustenance for the bans has increase , the principle behind it remains as obtuse as ever . lawmaker and official , for eld now , have warned the Chinese authorities could surreptitiously habituate TikTok to harvest US user ’ information which they say could harm national surety . “ Could ” and “ Might ” are the keywords here . To date , the US government activity has yet to provide any concrete evidence backing these claim .
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That said , TikTok definitely has n’t done itself any favors . The Department of Justice is currentlyinvestigatingTikTok over claims it spied on three former BuzzFeed newsman in the society ’s investigation of an interior leak . Former employeewhistleblowers , meanwhile , have say TikTok ’s architectural plan to secure US user data in Oracle servers simply do n’t go far enough , with one saying only a “ utter re - engineering ” of the app would be necessary to receive lawmaker ’ demands . Another former employee , writing in a varsity letter sent to ByteDance by Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley ’s part , allege TikTok and its Formosan parent company ByteDance are “ functionally the same society . ”
So here we are , with a internal TikTok ban or push sales event looking all the more likely . Below are all of these legislative efforts so far vie to make that a reality .
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