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Can the Department of Treasury just ban internet apps?
I did not realize they had that ability.
Frankly, I don’t even understand what “banning” an app looks like.
Are they just saying they would tell Apple and Google to remove it from the app store, or would they like, charge people with a crime for using it?
The U.S. Treasury Department demanded TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance divest from the app in order to prevent a ban on the platform in the U.S., a company spokeswoman confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The White House announced on Jan. 13 that TikTok would be banned on all federal employee devices and multiple states had previously enacted their own bans regarding the app in an effort to protect sensitive U.S. data, according to Reuters. On Wednesday, the Treasury Department, via the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), informed the Chinese platform that it would ban the app in the U.S. if the app’s Chinese owners did not divest their shares.
TikTok spokeswoman Maureen Shanahan told the DCNF in a prepared statement that “divestment doesn’t solve the problem.”
“If protecting national security is the objective, divestment doesn’t solve the problem: a change in ownership would not impose any new restrictions on data flows or access,” Shanahan said. “The best way to address concerns about national security is with the transparent, U.S.-based protection of U.S. user data and systems, with robust third-party monitoring, vetting, and verification, which we are already implementing.”
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The app was created by Zhang Yiming and ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo in 2012 in Beijing, with 20% of the app’s ownership held by the founders and 60% by global investors, according to The Wall Street Journal. The department’s demand comes just after it was revealed that TikTok was considering splitting from ByteDance in order to assuage concerns regarding national security.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have raised national security concerns over TikTok’s Chinese ownership, after multiple reports have shown that TikTok user data was able to be accessed by Chinese employees.
This is inane bullshit.
Every company can access the user data of app users. Every app in the app store has the same access, unless you explicitly block it from having access. There are apps on there from every country you can think of, including very hostile countries like Israel.
It means literally nothing to say “the app can access user data.” It’s like saying “the app is an app.” It functions exactly the same as any app.
It makes no sense to be more worried about Chinese people accessing your data than you are about Americans accessing your data. And again – every foreign country has apps on the app store, and I’m sure there are thousands more from China on there. The issue is that TikTok has become a competitor to the big Jew social media companies, and because America is a democracy, corporations can lobby the government to ban their competition.
Moreover, it’s just another way to attack the Chinese. It isn’t something that will hurt China, but it serves to forward the narrative, i.e., “they banned that China app because they were spying on our freedoms and values of who we are in a democracy.”
