Biden: If approved in Congress, I will sign the law to ban Tik Tok

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, while US President Joe Biden announced his joining the Tik Tok social network a while ago, he announced yesterday if Congress passes the bill to ban Tik Tok approve, I will sign it.

According to this report The US House of Representatives plans to vote on the handing over of Tik Tok on Tuesday or Wednesday (March 12 or 13) next week. Congress will vote this proposal under the condition that two-thirds of the representatives’ positive votes are needed for its approval.

Biden stated that if congressmen pass this bill, I will sign it. Of course, this bill will have an unknown fate in the Senate because some senators want changes in it.

According to this bill, Byte Dance, the giant of Chinese technology and the owner of Tik Tok, will have 165 days, which is about 6 months, to hand over Tik Tok. If ByteDance refuses to do this, the application stores launched by Google, Apple and other technology companies will no longer be able to legally introduce Tik Tok to users or use web hosting services for Byte Dance applications support. Meanwhile, the US Department of Justice addressed the Energy and Commerce Committee of the Congress He said: A handover bill is better than the Tik Tok ban bill and it puts the government in a stronger legal position. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is Joe Biden’s possible opponent in the November 2024 election Referring to the ban on the use of Tik Tok, he said: If you get rid of Tik Tok and Facebook, their business will double. I don’t want Facebook to get better.

Trump was formerly the parent company of Facebook. Named criticized Meta for blocking his access to Facebook and Instagram after two of his posts were removed from these social networks in the wake of the January 6, 2021 riots and attack on the Congress building. Trump’s Facebook account was reactivated in February last year. But Trump announced that he no longer intends to work on this network and will work on his social network called Truth Social.

The Trump campaign and the meta company have not yet reacted to this news.

In 2020, Trump wanted to ban the use of Tik Tok and its parent company, WeChat, but the US Supreme Court prevented this.

The former US president also announced in August 2020 by issuing an executive order that the collection of users’ information by Tik Tok will allow the Chinese Communist Party to access the personal and legal information of the American people, and especially the Chinese government can track the location of federal employees and start espionage operations.

He does not place himself at the disposal of the Chinese government, he believes that this bill is equivalent to banning the use of Tik Tok. Tak agree, whether Tik Tak may be handed over in 6 months.

Byte Dance Company stated that the act of Congress to ban the use of Tik Tok is an attempt to deprive 170 million Americans of their legal right to freedom of speech. This figure was 150 million people last year.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s election campaign joined the TikTok social network on February 11 to encourage and attract the votes of young voters.

Biden’s campaign advisers said in a statement that the campaign will reach out to voters wherever they are, including on social media apps like Instagram and Truth Social. which is owned by Donald Trump, continues.

An official of the Biden campaign added: The campaign takes advanced security precautions for its electronic devices on which TikTok is installed. can be adopted, and the issue of their joining TikTok is separate from the ongoing security checks on this application.

Joining the Biden campaign to Tik Tok is important because the owner of this application, the Chinese technology giant “Byte Dance”, due to possible national security concerns in the United States It is under observation. Some American lawmakers have long called for banning the use of this application due to concerns about the possible access of the Chinese government to the information of its users or influencing what users see in this application.

Meanwhile, Trump, the leading Republican candidate for the 2024 election, does not have any Tik Tok account.

At the same time last year, the Biden administration of the institutions of this country required to remove the TikTok application from the mobile phones and other electronic devices of government and federal employees.

According to the Chinese government, TikTok’s data collection is a standard practice carried out by thousands of apps around the world, and Washington’s actions in accusing TikTok of a “flagrant abuse” of relevant laws. is.

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

They stated in a letter that Biden risks the national security of the network Social media has ignored Tik Tok. Now how can the government warn the American people about the dangers of this app while the president uses it.

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