TikTok
TikTok is a social network for sharing video clips which has quickly established itself as a leader in this field, available as a mobile application, you can take it anywhere with you.
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Downloads:
12886 -
Release date :
03/12/2024 -
Author :
TikTok -
Licence :
Free license -
Categories:
Video – Communication
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Operating system :
Android, Online service, Windows 10/11, iOS iPhone / iPad
TikTok continues to worry US officials. The latter believe that the social network allows China to spy on and manipulate its users. As a reminder, there are 170 million of them in the United States. Refuted on multiple occasions by the company, these accusations finally led on Wednesday March 13, 2024 to the adoption, by a large majority of 352 votes out of 432 elected officials, of a law by the House of Representatives.
Through this bill, the United States is asking TikTok to cut ties with its parent company ByteDance within 180 days. More broadly, the objective is for the social network to no longer have any links with China, while relations between the two countries are going through a lasting crisis. If the social network does not change hands, the application will have to be removed from the App Store and the Google Play Store.
To get there, the project would have to be adopted by the Senate. According to AFP, nothing is decided, given that “leading figures oppose such a drastic measure against a hugely popular app”. For his part, Joe Biden stressed that the law would be promulgated if adopted by the Senate.
Reactions from China and TikTok
Wang Wenbin, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted strongly: “If a so-called national security pretext can be used to arbitrarily exclude successful companies from other countries, then there is no longer any fairness or justice”. He added that the United States was resorting to “thug methods” to get your hands on the successful platform.
For his part, the CEO of TikTok, Singaporean Shou Zi Chew, asked TikTok users on X to make themselves heard to make things happen. He continues by stating: “We will not stop defending you and we will continue to do everything in our power, including exercising our legal rights, to protect this amazing platform we have built with you”.
Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s vice president in charge of public policy, criticizes the American authorities for having adopted legislation “at an unprecedented speed without even [qu’elle ait] benefited from a public hearing”.