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Senator Plans To Introduce Bill To Ban TikTok Nationwide

Wednesday January 25, 2023. 02:00 PM , from Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican and China hawk, said on Tuesday that he would introduce a bill to ban the short video app TikTok in the United States. TikTok, whose parent is the Chinese company ByteDance, already faces a ban that would stop federal employees from using or downloading TikTok on government-owned devices. 'TikTok is China's backdoor into Americans' lives. It threatens our children's privacy as well as their mental health,' he said on Twitter. 'Now I will introduce legislation to ban it nationwide.' Hawley did not say when the bill would be introduced. 'Senator Hawley's call for a total ban of TikTok takes a piecemeal approach to national security and a piecemeal approach to broad industry issues like data security, privacy and online harms,' said TikTok spokeswoman Brooke Oberwetter. 'We hope that he will focus his energies on efforts to address those issues holistically, rather than pretending that banning a single service would solve any of the problems he's concerned about or make Americans any safer.'

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