[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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No. And I’m really surprised that the people who support actual hate speech or the dissemination of misinformation about deadly diseases (in the name of the first Amendment) would be trying to ban [b]any[/b] social media platform. 🤨
@bijouxbroussard I think they actually want to get a start on banning certain segments of it, and open the door to states having the right to ban whatever internet media they desire. GOP legislators are already talking about this, of course they are idiots and don’t know how impossible that would be to implement and keep up. Already I have to get my local news from NC, and I live in SC. SC has intimidated local news sources to the point the broadcasters have given up reporting anything unbiased to the Right wing.
@BackyardShaman Wow…that’s mind-blowing. Much of my family lives down South, and I’m told Atlanta and New Orleans are two cities in their respective states that aren’t as heavily censored as everyplace else. 😬
