TikTok ban
TikTok ban
TikTok ban
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In 2020, it banned the Chinese-owned app. Today, he opposes the Biden administration’s efforts in this direction.
By Lisa Friedman and Sapna Maheshwari
Four years ago, President Donald J. Trump denounced TikTok, the Chinese-owned video sharing app, as a threat to America’s national security. This week, as Mr. Trump prepares to retake the White House, he called it a “unique medium for freedom of expression.”
The comment was part of a brief he filed to the Supreme Court on Friday, asking the justices to pause a ban on TikTok set to take effect next month so that he could “negotiate a resolution” to save the platform.
A law passed with broad bipartisan consensus and signed by President Biden in April requires ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, to sell the app to a non-Chinese company or face a ban in the United States due to its threat to national security. and freedom of expression. . The judges are examining the company’s challenge to this law.
TikTok said the law violated the First Amendment and also states that its parent company is majority owned by investors.
Biden’s leadership and members of Congress argue that Chinese ownership of the platform compromises U. S. security because of the enormous amount of user tracking and data collection it conducts, and the threat that Beijing will simply use the app to spread propaganda.
This is also Trump’s position before he became a political star on TikTok, where he now has more than 14. 7 million followers.
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