The most senior Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, has urged the government to investigate TikTok, stating that the China-owned social media app is “a potential counter-intelligence threat we cannot ignore.” He also warned that it could be used to interfere in the US elections.
TikTok, which allows users to share short videos online, has enjoyed wild success since it launched in 2017, and has been downloaded more than 1bn times.
Schumer and Tom Cotton, the Republican senator from Arkansas, co-wrote a letter to the acting director of national intelligence on Wednesday. The pair said they were writing “to express our concerns about TikTok … and the national security risks posed by its growing use in the United States”.
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Which means either 1) the US-made secure messaging services are all backdoored/backdoorable by the US government, or 2) it's using the fear of foreign countries to suggest restrictions the US doesn't place on domestic software.
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They could make it illegal in the U.S., in retaliation to China's youtube ban.
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From LOLNEIN.
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