Does anyone besides the Biden admin think China is in any way worried or concerned over this? Or that China will even pay attention to Biden’s ramblings?
Biden administration threatens to ban TikTok if Chinese parent company doesn’t sell stakes
The Biden administration has demanded the Chinese owners of TikTok sell their stakes in the social media app or risk a possible ban in the U.S., the company told The Hill on Wednesday.
The Wall Street Journal first reported that the U.S. Treasury-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) made the push. TikTok confirmed it had heard from CFIUS and said it did not dispute the reporting.
The CFIUS demand comes amid security concerns about the video-sharing app, which is owned by China-based parent company ByteDance — specifically, that the Chinese government could gain access to American user data.
Congress has been increasingly scrutinizing TikTok and talking about a potential ban — and Republicans have knocked the Biden administration for not taking action on the perceived threat.
Even if the Chinese government sold their stake, it wouldn’t make a difference, because the data would still be fed to them. What should be happening, to start, is that all federal employees should be banned from having TikTok on their government issued phones, tablets, and computers. The backend software should restrict the access of TikTok, in the same way it blocks other websites. The same as private corporations block lots of websites.
From there, a ban on it in total could be debated. Because it is free choice for private citizens if they want to expose their own data to China.
Teach typed:
Isn’t that the case already?
TECHNOLOGY
Biden approves banning TikTok from federal government phones.
Updated December 30, 2022 12:05 PM ET
Sounds as if President Biden took Mr Teach’s advice last year!!
So what is Mr Teach griping about today? President Biden has proposed completely banning TikTok in the US but Mr Teach (FREEDOM!) would continue to allow China to ‘groom’ American kids in their communistic ways.
ownership is the least of teh problems with TicToc. The app is not going to change when the owners do. The servers are not going to change. The other customers are not going to change. Everything bad about TicToc is still going to be there and the Chinese will still profit from it, but they will get their profits up front in the sale.
Agreed.
The problem with TikTok isn’t the Chinese, it’s us. TikTok is exposing our children to more lies, crap, disinformation, demeaning comments, improper sexuality than anything else out there.
All of social media sucks, but TikTok is the worst for the kids.
Monitor what your kids do. TikTok is a cesspool.