short video applications under the bytes of Chinese technology companies.The Douyin International version of Tiktok has recently been stared at by the US government. All kinds of restrictions and prohibitions have made Tiktok, a Tiktok with more than 1 billion users, seem to be more and more rugged.
On November 28, Kristi Noem, Governor of the United States, issued an administrative order to prohibit state government employees and contract employees use Tiktok on the state government equipment.The "TIKTOK ban" was then set off in many states in the United States. In just two weeks, at least seven states announced to follow up and excluded Tiktok in the electronic equipment of the state government.
Until Thursday (December 15), at least 12 states have made similar announcements, including South Dakota, South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, Maryland, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, North, and NorthDakota, Aiwa, Alabama, Utah, Nebraska, Florida and Tennessee.
Aken San, Wisconsin, Virginia, and Virginia are also brewing similar restrictions on Tiktok's introduction.And through the "various misleading statements" to make children come into contact with adult content.
"Tiktok constitutes a potential security risk for network infrastructure" is a common reason given by these state governments when taking action on Tiktok.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the US Senate has approved on Wednesday (December 14) to prohibit the installation of TIKTOK on the government's electronic equipment. It seems that the Tiktok ban has become a two -party consensus.If this bill will be successfully passed in the House next week and the US President Biden is signed as a law, the restrictions based on the state government level will rise to the federal level, allowing Tiktok to face greater restrictions.
In this regard, a spokesman for Tiktok said that the company is formulating plans to further ensure the security of the platform in the United States and will continue to introduce these plans to Congress.The spokesman also criticized some US members to promote the ban on political motivation, which has no help to promote US national security.
Tiktok's doubts
The US government and legislators have long held doubts about Tiktok, saying that Tiktok is collecting sensitive data for users for the Chinese government to conduct spy activities.National security caused hidden dangers.
The US Republican Senator Marco Rubio and the Representative Mike Gallgher wrote in the Washington Post, saying that Tiktok provided the CCP with a CCP in November.Unique capabilities enable Beijing to monitor more than 1 billion users worldwide, including nearly two -thirds of American teenagers.
The article also said that Tiktok's algorithm may have been used by Beijing to promote the discussion of the CCP and exacerbate the turbulence of American society, shape the problem of the young people in the United States, inciteDomestic split in the United States."We must ban this potential spy software before the time before."
This comment article was published after Forbes published an report in October this year.Forbes reported at the time that the byte beating team plans to monitor the positions of some specific American citizens through international applications.
Tiktok subsequently issued a few consecutive times, and tweeted to strongly deny these claims, saying that the company could not know the specific location of the user through the method of reporting, and never collected this information.
However, Tiktok US branch acknowledged that in June this year that employees of Chinese parent company can access data from international American users, but the security team of the branch is authorized to approve it.It will share with the Chinese government.
Nevertheless, Tiktok's potential security suspicion cloud still triggers concerns from senior officials in American intelligence and security departments.U.S. National Intelligence Director of Haynes said on December 3 at Reagan Defense Forum held in Simi Valley, California, saying that American parents should care about the privacy of information facing children and adolescents when using Tiktok.
The Director of the Federal Investigation Bureau Christopher Lei also said on December 2 that the Chinese government may use Tiktok to collect data from American users and manipulate the algorithm to promote the CCP.Tiktok may also be used to obtain information on other software on the user's device, and risks cannot be ignored.
Not only US officials, some research institutions have also questioned Tiktok's information review mechanism.Researchers at the non -profit organization "Global Witness" and New York University have done an experiment. They have created several videos to advertise on TIKTOK to test whether it can effectively prohibit paid political videos.However, they found that even though Tiktok stated in 2019 that paid political advertisements were prohibited, 90 % of them submitted by the wrong election information in this experiment.
"Global Witness" senior consultant Laud said that Tiktok is at the "bottom" compared with other social media that handles error election information.Agence France -Presse reports that more and more Americans use Tiktok as the source of news, but the platform is full of unfounded false information and misleading videos.US regulators are worried that this will affect the young people and threaten the process of democracy.
Tiktok will be forced to exit the United States fully?
Although the two parties in the United States have consensus on Tiktok's ban, general analysis believes that the US government is unlikely to issue a more comprehensive restriction on Tiktok.
Evan Lawrence, a senior lecturer in the International Relations of the Central Lanxia University in the United Kingdom, believes that technically, it is possible for the US government to implement the ban on TIKTOK;Legislation is not very useful."Many times, legislation like this is used as a negotiation strategy. By placing this issue in front of the media and the public, letting them (the US government) have a better negotiation position, which does not mean that it is a kind ofsubstanceprogress."
She said that it is not bad for the US government to strengthen the control of federal devices to exclude foreign interference in domestic elections, but it is another matter if it can expand the scope of control to ordinary people.
Caitlin Chin, a researcher at the Think Tank Strategy and International Research Center in Washington, also believes that although people generally think that it is necessary to modify the audit mechanism of US data privacy and content, the progress of Congress in this regard is slow.The government is also unlikely to prohibit Tiktok quickly across the country.
She pointed out that so far, all concerns and allegations of TIKTOK are based on the possibility of abuse of data, not related to the abuse of abuse.Evidence, and many other social media will also collect similar information.
However, VOA reports that Tiktok is banned from being supported by US polls.The polls announced on the 9th show that 68 % of the United States supports the United States' proposal to ban TIKTOK, of which 43 % of them strongly support, only 24 % of them are opposed.
Tiktok's monthly active users in the United States are about 85 million.
As early as 2020When the former President Trump was in power, the White House tried to force Tiktok to stop operating in the United States through administrative orders, and the US company took over its business, but this administrative order did not receive the support of the court.The administrative order of the item, and seeks to negotiate with Tiktok on security and content issues. Although the two parties have reached a preliminary agreement, officials and officials of the United States Department of Justice believe that the agreement is still lacking supervision.
After the launch of the international version of the international version in 2017, it swept the global application with its short videos.Stores have become the most popular applications in the world in just a few years. But the trees have been attractive, and in recent years, I have been playing iron plates.
In 2020, India announced that it would completely ban the people from installing Tiktok; this year, Tiktok was almost acquired by other companies under pressure under the US government.By this year, in addition to the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Taiwan governments also consider restricting Tiktok to varying degrees due to doubts about security.
Even if the United States may not implement a comprehensive ban on Tiktok in the end, it will be stricter in various places and facing more restrictions on it.Because of geopolitics and competition between China and the United States, Tiktok needs to face no longer just market legal supervision or data review. More complicated and blurred political supervision will also take place to add difficulties to the development of TIKTOK.
