The CEO of TikTok has mentioned {that a} US ban on the platform “would take billions of {dollars} out of the pockets of creators and small companies”.
Shou Zi Chew, who a supply mentioned is visiting Washington DC this week, added the corporate will train its authorized rights to stop a ban after a invoice handed within the Home.
Representatives overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday to provide TikTok’s Chinese language proprietor ByteDance about six months to divest the US property of the app, or face a ban.
The invoice handed 352-65 in a bipartisan vote, however it faces a extra unsure path within the Senate the place some favour a special method to regulating foreign-owned apps posing safety considerations.
TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew Pic: Reuters
President Joe Biden has indicated he’ll signal the invoice if it passes by way of each homes.
White Home nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday requested: “Do we wish TikTok, as a platform, to be owned by an American firm or owned by China?
“Do we wish the information from TikTok – kids’s knowledge, adults’ knowledge – to be staying right here in America or going to China?”
Donald Trump has mentioned that he would oppose a ban as a result of it might assist rival social media platform Fb.
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Mr Trump beforehand issued, then rescinded, an govt motion throughout his presidency meant to ban TikTok and one other well-liked Chinese language app, WeChat.
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‘Senator, I am Singaporean. No.’
Each the FBI and Federal Communications Fee have warned TikTok proprietor ByteDance might share consumer knowledge, equivalent to shopping historical past, location and biometric identifiers, with China’s authoritarian authorities.
TikTok claims it has by no means performed that and wouldn’t accomplish that if requested.
China’s International Ministry has criticised the laws, arguing “although the US has by no means discovered any proof of TikTok
posing a menace to the US’s nationwide safety, it has by no means stopped going after TikTok”.
