{"id":593550,"date":"2023-01-03T05:48:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T11:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/03\/india-set-an-incredibly-important-precedent-by-banning-tiktok-fcc-commissioner-says\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T05:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T11:48:54","slug":"india-set-an-incredibly-important-precedent-by-banning-tiktok-fcc-commissioner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/03\/india-set-an-incredibly-important-precedent-by-banning-tiktok-fcc-commissioner-says\/","title":{"rendered":"India set an \u2018incredibly important precedent\u2019 by banning TikTok, FCC Commissioner says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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India set an \u201cincredibly important precedent\u201d by banning TikTok two and a half years ago<\/a>, FCC Commissioner said, as he projected a similar fate for the Chinese giant Bytedance app in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Brendan Carr, Commissioner of the FCC, warned that TikTok \u201coperates as a sophisticated surveillance tool,\u201d and told the Indian daily Economic Times that banning the social app is a \u201cnatural next step in our efforts to secure communication network.\u201d<\/p>\n

The senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission said he is worried that China could use sensitive and non-public data gleaned from TikTok to \u201cblackmail, espionage, foreign influence campaigns and surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to follow India\u2019s lead more broadly to weed out other nefarious apps as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Carr\u2019s remarks further illustrates a growing push among U.S. states and lawmakers that are increasingly growing cautious of TikTok, which has amassed over 100 million users in the nation.<\/p>\n

India has banned hundreds of apps<\/a>, including TikTok, PUBG Mobile, Battlegrounds Mobile India and UC Browser, with affiliation to China in the past two years amid skirmishes at the border of the two neighboring nations.<\/p>\n

New Delhi said it had banned the apps because they posed threats to the \u201cnational security and defence of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India.\u201d<\/p>\n

TikTok had over 200 million monthly active users in India and counted the South Asian nation as its largest international market by users prior to the ban.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndia\u2019s strong leadership has been informative and helpful as we have debated banning TikTok in the US,\u201d Carr told the Indian paper<\/a> (paywalled). \u201cFor those who argue that there is no way to ban an app, India is an example of a country that has done it and done it successfully.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. House banned TikTok on all House-managed devices last week<\/a>, citing a \u201chigh risk due to a number of security issues.\u201d The move followed nearly two dozen states at least partially blocking the app from state-managed devices over concern that China could use it to track Americans and censor content.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the history of TikTok\u2019s malign data flows and its misleading representations, I don\u2019t see a path forward for anything other than a blanket ban working,\u201d he told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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India set an \u201cincredibly important precedent\u201d by banning TikTok two and a half years ago, FCC Commissioner said, as he projected a similar fate for the Chinese giant Bytedance app in the U.S. Brendan Carr, Commissioner of the FCC, warned that TikTok \u201coperates as a sophisticated surveillance tool,\u201d and told the Indian daily Economic Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1745,126,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-593550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-incredibly","8":"category-india","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}