Trump: Tik Tok threatens US national security

Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the 2024 election, called the social network Tik Tok a threat to national security, but said that banning the use of this application would harm some children and teenagers because they are very interested in it.

Trump emphasized that banning the use of Tik Tok will only lead to the strengthening and strengthening of Facebook, which the Republicans strongly criticize.

announced that if Congress passes the bill to ban Tik Tok, I will sign it.     

According to this report, the US House of Representatives is considering handing over the Tik Tok social network tomorrow (March 13). Vote slow. Needed.

According to this bill, Byte Dance, the giant of Chinese technology and the owner of Tik Tok, He will have 165 days, which means 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, Joe Biden’s election campaign took to the network on February 11 to encourage young voters. Tiktok social media joined.

Biden campaign advisers announced in a statement that the campaign will meet voters wherever they are, including on apps. Social networks like Instagram and Truth Social, which is owned by Donald Trump, continue.

A Biden campaign official added: The campaign will take advanced security precautions for devices It adopts its own electronic device on which Tiktok is installed, and the issue of their joining Tiktok is separate from the ongoing security checks on this application.

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

They stated in a letter that Biden It has ignored the national security risks of the Tik Tok social network. Now how can the government warn the American people about the dangers of this application while the president is using it.

Joining the Biden campaign to TikTok is important The owner of this application, the Chinese technology giant “Byte Dance”, is under surveillance in the United States due to possible national security concerns. 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 Tik Tok which has announced many times which does not provide the information of its American users to the Chinese government, believes that this bill is equivalent to banning the use of Tik Tok.

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, the FBI, Justice Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence are considering a meeting with members of the hold a congress in this regard. FBI director Christopher Ray also expressed his concern about the use of Tik Tok in the annual threat assessment report to Congress.

Donald Trump previously said that if you get rid of Tik Tok and Facebook, their business will double. I don’t want Facebook to get better. Trump does not have a Tik Tok account.

Trump previously called Facebook’s parent company, Meta, to block his access to Facebook and Instagram after two of his posts were removed. He criticized these social networks following the January 6, 2021 riot and the 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.

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

The former US president also in August In 2020, he issued an executive order declaring that the collection of users’ information by TikTok would allow the Chinese Communist Party to access the personal and legal information of the American people, and in particular, the Chinese government could track the status of federal employees. and start espionage operations.

Last year, the Biden administration required the institutions of this country to remove the TikTok application from the mobile phones and other electronic devices of state and federal employees.

According to the Chinese government, TikTok’s data collection is standard practice by thousands of apps around the world, and Washington’s actions in accusing TikTok of “clear abuse” It is one of the relevant rules.

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