{"id":629134,"date":"2023-04-14T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/inside-the-us-governments-fight-to-ban-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:50:07","slug":"inside-the-us-governments-fight-to-ban-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/inside-the-us-governments-fight-to-ban-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the US government\u2019s fight to ban TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For nearly three years, the US government has tried to ban TikTok.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Concerns over the app\u2019s alleged risks to national security have spanned two presidential<\/a> administrations<\/a> and forged alliances among Republicans and Democrats. At a time of heightened partisanship, TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, have become the focus of anti-China policy \u2014 a convenient villain most lawmakers are prepared to fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last month, that outrage hit a fever pitch. The Biden administration reportedly threatened to ban TikTok<\/a> if it didn\u2019t find an American owner. House lawmakers brought the company\u2019s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, in for an explosive hearing<\/a>. At the same time, a group of senators introduced the RESTRICT Act,<\/a> a bill authorizing the government to ban the app and others like it. This maelstrom of action has proved that the government is more determined to ban TikTok than ever before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But with a ban seemingly on the horizon, critics fear actions to take TikTok offline could do more to chill free speech on the internet than to protect the safety and security of American user data. Other experts argue the government\u2019s attacks against the app are unjustified, claiming there\u2019s little evidence to prove the app has inflicted more harm than Facebook or Google.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So last month, The Verge<\/em> went to Washington, DC, to meet with lawmakers, creators, and civil rights experts. We wanted to find out whether the federal government would finally ban TikTok\u2026\u00a0and how the fight is affecting the internet at large. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Makena Kelly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For nearly three years, the US government has tried to ban TikTok.\u00a0Concerns over the app\u2019s alleged risks to national security have spanned two presidential administrations and forged alliances among Republicans and Democrats. At a time of heightened partisanship, TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, have become the focus of anti-China policy \u2014 a convenient<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1220,118,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-629134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-governments","8":"category-inside","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629134","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=629134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}