Tiktok Creators and Three Us Democratic Party Lawmakers On Wedsday They Opposed Any Potential Ban on the Chinese-Owned Short Video sharing app that is used by more than 150 millions of americans.
On thuresday Tiktok Ceo shou zi chew will testtify before the US house energy and commerce commissione amid growing calls for a ban over national security concerns at a time when relations are Deteriorated.
REPRESENTITES JAMAAAL BOWMAN, Mark Pocan and Robert Garcia and Tiktok Creators Called at a Press Conference in Washington for Broad-Broad-Based Privacy Legislation that is the hour All Large Social Meedi Social Meedi Companies.
“Why the Hysteria and the Panic and the Targeting of Tiktok?” Bowman Asked. “Let’s do the right thing here – Comprehensive Social Media Reform as It Relates to Privacy and Security.”
Still, far more us lawmakers want tiktok banned. Critics fear that tiktok user data in the united states could be passed on to china’s government. Last Week, Tiktok said the Administration of President Joe biden Demanded Its Chinese Ownes Divest Their Stakes or it face a potential ban.
Creators Talked on Wednsday about Posting Videos of Baking Cakes or Selling Greeting Cards to Tiktok Followers. Some Held Up Signs Saying Tiktok Benefits Small Businesses. Tiktok Says 5 Million Businesses Use The App.
Tiktok Creator Jason Linton Uses Tiktok to Share Videos of His Three Adopted Children in Oklahoma and have interacted with people Around the World.
“I am asking our politicalians – do’t take away the communication that we’ve all buy – a communication that lasts, that loves,” Linton said at the press conference.
Pocan said a “Xenophobic botch hunt” is motivating some in Congress to seek a tiktok ban. “Banning tiktok isn’t the answer. Making sure americans data is safe is,” He said.
Senator Ed Markey, A Democrat, said on the Senate Floor on Wednsday that Tiktok is a Threat that needs to be addressed but it is not the only surveillance threat to young people. That position “is deliberately missing the big tech forest for the tiktok trees.”
Democratic Senator Mark Warner Said Two Additional Senators Backed His Bipartisan Legislation with Republican John Thune to Give the Biden Administration New Powerrs to Ban Tiktok.
“Congress needs to give the administration the to review and mitigate the harms posd by foreign technology products that come from adversarial nations,” Warner said.
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