There have been increasing calls to ban TikTok, and now a bipartisan group of US Congresspeople has announced a bill to do just that.
TikTok from Chinese megafirm ByteDance has turned short-form video into a social media phenomenon, making Twitter look pretty dumb for canning Vine a few years back. The skyrocketing popularity of TikTok has some security experts and political leaders concerned . As a Chinese company, the Chinese government has access to all of its data. There have been increasing calls to ban the app, and now a bipartisan group of US Congresspeople has announced a bill that will do just that.The bill has a real doozy of a title: « Averting the National Threat of Internet Surveillance, Oppressive Censorship and Influence, and Algorithmic Learning by the Chinese Communist Party Act. » If you’re short on time, the acronym of all that is « ANTI-SOCIAL CCP Act. » Handy. If passed into law, the Act would block all transactions from any social media company that is based in, controlled by, or influenced by a « country of concern.
