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March 13, 2024 at 10:52 AM. WASHINGTON — The House-passed bill that could ban TikTok faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where there is less urgency to act and senators have different ...
The Chinese-owned short-video platform boasts around 170 million U.S. users, and is currently fighting a new law that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban ...
Youngkin framed his call for a ban on kids using the app, issued in a December speech, as a tool to help protect children's mental health, part of a broader push by his administration on the issue.
Executive Order 14034 ("EO 14034"), "Protecting Americans' Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries". In January 2020, the United States Army and Navy banned TikTok on government devices after the Defense Department labeled it a security risk. Before the policy change, army recruiters had been using the platform to attract young people.
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [112] The review is expected to ban TikTok on all official government devices. It has been reported that some politicians are using burner phones due to the ban. [113] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [114]
TikTok's content moderation policies have been criticized as non-transparent. Internal guidelines against the promotion of violence, separatism, and "demonization of countries" could be used to prohibit content related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Falun Gong, Tibet, Taiwan, Chechnya, Northern Ireland, the Cambodian genocide, the 1998 Indonesian riots, Kurdish nationalism ...
TikTok doesn't seem worried. Peter Kafka. September 10, 2024 at 5:14 PM. Chelsea Jia Feng/BI. TikTok faces a January 19, 2025, deadline to find a new US owner or shut down. Despite the looming ...
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday in support of a TikTok ban, 352-65. However, the bill has not yet reached the Senate. Will TikTok get banned?