U.S. Law to Ban TikTok
U.S. Law to Ban TikTok: According to Iran Gate, Marco Rubio, a Republican senator from Florida, introduced a bill yesterday to ban TikTok and increase pressure on its parent company ByteDance, which received bipartisan support from both Democrats and Republicans.
American politicians are concerned about the potential use of TikTok and ByteDance to access user-shared information, fearing that the app may be used for spying on Americans and censoring content. Google and Apple have also been asked to classify the app as suitable for adults.
Meanwhile, a group of 15 attorneys general have asked Google and Apple executives to remove TikTok from the content classification that deems this program suitable for teenagers. They held these two companies responsible for ensuring accurate age ratings and warned that if this classification is not addressed, TikTok might face lawsuits from states.
Rubio’s office announced that the bill would block all transactions of any social network under the influence of China and Russia, adding that the bill was also introduced to the House by Republican Mike Gallagher and Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi. It is worth mentioning that during the Trump administration, efforts to ban this app were made but failed.
A month ago, FBI Director Chris Wray also stated that the Chinese government might use TikTok to control information or software of millions of users and warned about the risk of influencing users’ thoughts.
Following this, various states across America banned the installation of this app on government devices. From last week, Alabama and Utah also announced a ban on installing TikTok on government devices.
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