Source: Wall Street Journal

Compared with the actions adopted by Chinese companies such as Huawei Technology Co., Ltd., the Trump administration has prevented video sharing of TIKTOK's efforts to facing more challenges. To a certain extent, the United States has never been welcomed by a popularityApplication is included in the blacklist.

Washington Think Tank New America's network security expert Samm Sacks said that during the blockade of the new crown epidemic, millions of Americans used Tiktok to seek entertainment, which may only cause the Trump administration to take care of several potential obstacles when considering taking action.one.

Sacks said: They are trying to find a way to balance the interests of all parties, so as not to be counterproductive.

U.S. officials said they were worried that Tiktok might pass the data collected from American streaming video to the Chinese government.TIKTOK is the byte beating at the headquarters in Beijing.Tiktok has said that it will never do so.U.S. officials are also increasingly worried about unprecedented information and China's propaganda content spread on the application.

There are several ways to restrict TIKTOK by the Trump administration, including the lifting of a cross -border merger transaction. It is the transaction that allows Tiktok to have a huge user base in the United States.

Another possibility is that Trump uses international emergency economic power he rarely uses, and disables social media applications related to foreign opponents.

The Trump administration may also seek to incorporate Tiktok into the prohibition and installation of foreign technologies that threaten US national security by the Ministry of Commerce.

Another option is to include this application in the so -called physical list.The Ministry of Commerce used this list to prevent US companies from selling products to Huawei.However, unlike Tiktok, Huawei has never been an important market for consumers in the United States.

Laws and network security experts familiar with related issues said that listing Tiktok is included in the entity list (actually exporting blacklist) may force Apple's App Store and Google's Google Play and other applicants to remove Tiktok from its products from its products.This may be challenged.

The White House chief information officer, the White House chief information officer of the Bush administration, said: Export control regulations may not be legally applied to an application.She currently runs a network security consulting company.She said: The United States usually uses export control regulations to prohibit company export key technologies.It is uncertain whether they have jurisdiction or legal precedent to expand it to Apple and Google.

Officials from the Ministry of Commerce did not immediately reply to the reporter's comment request.

Tiktok spokesman said the company is committed to ensuring that Tiktok's long -term success in the United States. In addition, the theoretical options will not comment.

Tiktok's parent company's byte beating has recently considered changing Tiktok's company structure because Tiktok has been reviewed by its Chinese background in the United States and other markets.TIKTOK has recently hired Kevin Mayer, who has long been the executive of Walter Disney, as CEO.Mayer's office is located in Los Angeles.

According to market research company Sensor Tower data, Tiktok's download in the United States in the first half of 2020 is second only to Zoom.Tiktok became popular with the magical dance and music videos created by users.So far, this application has downloaded more than 180 million times in the United States through the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Any action against Tiktok may further intensify the tension with China, but US officials said that Chinese applications, such as Tiktok and Tencent Holdings Co., Ltd., and Multi -functional applications WeChat.User data constitutes risk.

The White House Chiefs Chief of Staff Mendis recently told reporters that many government officials are paying attention to national security risks related to TIKTOK, WeChat, and other applications. These applications may have national security risks, especially involving foreign opponents collecting US citizen informationrisks of.Meadus said: I don't think the government has set the last deadline for its own operation, but I think the time range will be several weeks, not a few months.

This remarks have encouraged some people in Congress to attack Tiktok.

Josh Hawley, a Republican senator in Missouri, said the government's recent tough theory made me excited.Hawley has proposed several bills for Tiktok, one of which aims to prevent federal employees from using the software.When he mentioned applications related to foreign opponents, he said that if government actions are not taken in coordination, this situation will not stop.

Even more worrying is the upcoming election season.Some members are worried that Tiktok may become a hotbed of political errors and Chinese propaganda agencies.

At the same time, Trump's re -election campaign team recently launched advertisements on Facebook, accusing Tiktok of spy activities on its users.A advertisement said: Tiktok's behavior of monitoring your mobile phone clipboard is arrested.

Michael McCaul, a member of the Republican Commission of the House of Representatives, said in a statement: We do not want to deprive Americans to use their favorite application software, but we must consider the foreign authoritarian government that suppresses the freedom of the citizens of the country.The use of malicious and hidden means affects the speech of free countries.

Payton said that Tiktok's young audience is particularly vulnerable to these error information.Payton is manipulated by manipulating: the book of abduction and distorted the truth (Manipulated: Inside the cyber to hijack Elections and distribort the Truth).

Payton said: For our presidential election cycle, this may be a potential disaster.She said: We used to socialize on nearby squares in the past.Now, with the spread of the epidemic, Tiktok has become our neighboring square.

However, some people warned the government's approach.

Cumini Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal recently posted a post saying: Tiktok is a potential security threat, but banning Tiktok does not help the United States fight against China's profound threat to our national security, economy, and democracy.

However, U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo said in an interview with Fox earlier this month that the government was seriously treating potential threats brought by Tiktok.

He said: Regarding Chinese applications on people's mobile phones, I can assure you that the United States will deal with this problem correctly.