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Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr told Breitbart News on Sunday that Congress should pass a bill that would ban TikTok in the United States.through the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and enjoys bipartisan support. It would ban TikTok in the U.S., as well as any other applications owned by a foreign “adversary,” and require companies controlling such applications to provide all user data to American users upon request.
“If TikTok was simply a platform where people could speak their mind, get all sort of content, that’d be one thing,” he said. “But because TikTok has engaged in espionage, it has admitted that it was spying on journalists in the U.S. that were writing negative stories about TikTok, they in a situation where the First Amendment does not require the government to allow the national security risk to persist.
He cited Supreme Court precedent that, he said, would uphold federal restrictions on TikTok, which would take effect under the bill unless the parent company, Bytedance, cut all of its ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Asked about former President Donald Trump’s opposition to banning TikTok, on the argument that doing so would made Facebook stronger, Carr acknowledged that there is still an “accumulation of power in Silicon Valley that we still need to deal with as well,” regardless of TikTok’s fate.on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET . He is the author of the new biography,Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S.
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