TikTok ban: all the news on the app’s shutdown and return in the US
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We’re an hour into TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s hearing before Congress.
Right out of the gate, Republicans and Democrats attacked the company over its alleged ties to the Chinese government.
“Your platform should be banned,” Chair Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-WA) said in her opening statement Thursday.
At times, Democrats like Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. alluded to TikTok not being the only harmful platform, calling for federal data privacy legislation to better regulate the ways US-based companies like Meta and Google collect and share data.
Still, Congress has yet to approve any meaningful federal privacy framework even though the Biden administration has called on TikTok to either sever ties to Bytedance or be banned nationwide.
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