Trump joined Tik Tok

, Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the 2024 election, joined this social network, contrary to his previous desire to ban Tik Tok.

According to this report, this user account has more than 450 thousand followers until the early hours of this morning. has had.

Meanwhile, in April, US President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that would give ByteDance, the Chinese owner of Tik Tok, 270 days from doing business in the US. ignore.

According to this bill, the existence of this software Chinese software will be banned from US app stores unless the social media platform, which is used by approximately 170 million Americans, within the next nine months to a year from Bytedance (ByteDance) Disconnect.

Meanwhile, not long ago, the Byte Dance company, in order to prevent the implementation of the bill that was approved by the US Congress last month, asked the government of The country complained.

In this complaint filed in the US District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Tik Tok emphasized that this bill violates the country’s constitutional protections for freedom of speech.

In the lawsuit, Tik Tok “violated the Act to protect Americans from applications controlled by foreign adversaries” “Record” describes First Amendment rights.

In this petition Tik Tok wrote: For the first time in history, Congress has enacted a law that subjects a speech platform to a permanent and nationwide ban and prevents Americans from participating in a A unique online community with over a billion people worldwide.

According to the report, ByteDance also argued that citing national security concerns is not sufficient reason to limit free speech.

A number of American lawmakers For years, they have insisted that Tik Tok is a “national security threat” due to its Chinese ownership and have tried to force it to cut ties with its parent company, ByteDance..

The use of the Tik Tok social network has caused a lot of concern among American lawmakers, and it is feared that the company Byte Dance will access the information of millions of users. American access.

Donald Trump’s previous attempt in 2020 to ban Tik Tok during his presidency was blocked by the US Supreme Court. In addition, in March of this year, he stated that this social network is a threat to national security, but banning it can harm young people who are interested in it, and only strengthens the Facebook social network, which he is its fierce critic.

Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union said in this regard: banning or requiring the handover of Tik Tok is an alarming global precedent for the increasing control of governments over social networking platforms. If the US bans a foreign platform, it will trigger similar laws from other countries .

Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden in February for encouragement Votes of young voters, joined Tik Tok social network.

An official of the Biden campaign stated that the campaign takes advanced security precautions for its electronic devices on which TikTok is installed, and the issue of their joining TikTok is separate from the ongoing security checks on the application.

A group of Republicans in the US House of Representatives asked Joe Biden to deactivate his campaign account on the social network Tik Tok due to security concerns.

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