[c=004A59][b][u]Should Tiktok be banned from use in the United States of America?[/u][/b][/c]
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[big]Tiktok ban to be voted on U.S House panel next month[/big]
[b]• Republican Michael McCaul is drafting a bill that would grant the White House the authority to outlaw Tiktok over U.S. national security concerns. • A total of 60 votes are needed in the Senate for the Congress to pass the bill. • Biden had previously signed legislation that included a ban on federal workers from downloading Tiktok on government-owned devices.[/b]
[i][c=666666]TikTok ban in the US over national security concerns (Shutterstock)[/c][/i]
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee announced on Friday, January 27 2023 that it will vote next month on a bill intended to prohibit the use of TikTok, a well-known social media platform in China, in the United States.
The measure was planned by the panel’s chair Representative Michael McCaul over U.S. national security concerns, noting that the popular app gives the Chinese government a back door into American citizens’ phones.
To pass, it would need 60 votes in the Senate and would have to overcome considerable obstacles in Congress.
The U.S. government's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and Tiktok have been in talks since 2021 with the aim of achieving a national security agreement to safeguard the data of U.S. Tiktok users.
Last December 2022, a law that forbade federal employees from accessing or downloading Tiktok on government-owned devices was signed by President Biden. Tiktok use on state-owned devices is likewise prohibited in more than 25 U.S. states.
[i][c=666666]Representative Michael McCaul (Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg)[/c][/i]
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But when Putin, Erdogan, the Taliban and everyone in between do the same, they're anti-democratic and tyrants. Which they are. State-owned devices with sensitive information are a whole different world than regular citizens' phones. It's not like people do not already post every detail about their lives on social media. If China wants information, it's all out there already 😂
@HannibalAteMeOut They have a whole different access to information by collecting it from their very own app as opposed to buying from the Zuck only what the Zuck wants to sell.
In any case, they'd just need to copy the GDPR, if this decision was really motivated by privacy. GDPR violation fines aren't a joke, not even for very large companies; and after reiterated violations there's the ban iirc
