A dozen U.S. Senators introduced a bill on Tuesday that would give President Biden the ability to ban TikTok and other technology platforms owned by foreign adversaries.
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A bipartisan group of 12 U.S. Senators introduced a bill on Tuesday that would give President Biden the abilitySenate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., said that TikTok is not the only threat from hostile nations, noting that the U.S. has had to fend off telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei and antivirus software from Russia's Kaspersky Lab.
"We lack, at this moment in time, a holistic interagency whole-of-government approach," Warner said at a press conference on Tuesday. "So instead of playing Whac-A-Mole on Huawei one day, ZTE the next, Kaspersky, TikTok, we need a more comprehensive approach to evaluating and mitigating these threats posed by these foreign technologies from these adversarial nations.
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