The US federal government and at least 18 states have recently set up Tiktok on all government equipment.However, the second largest city in South Dakota went against it.
The Wall Street Journal reported that earlier this week, the Laipid City Parliament rejected a proposal to prohibit the use of TIKTOK on the municipal device and the Internet with an 8-1 voting result.The ban will also be prohibited from using this application.
Currently in all parts of the United States, politicians and governors of the states are proceeding to formulate restriction measures for Tiktok, or threatened to take such methods.Legislative victory, although it is just a small victory.
Tiktok has about 100 million U.S. users, many of them are young people.In view of this popularity, public debate around the application restrictions may expand to other directions other than national security considerations, and many US officials have proposed concerns about national security concerns of this application of this China.
The population of Ripid City is 76,000. The city's city council meeting on Tuesday (January 3) discussed Tiktok's problem.
Tiktok still faces greater challenges in Washington.Some officials of the Biden government want to try to force Tiktok's owner and headquarters in Beijing to sell the application to an American company.A two -party group composed of members of the two houses proposed a bill that will prohibit all Americans from using Tiktok, not just civil servants who use government equipment.
Officials who promoted the forced sale or disable Tiktok said that the Chinese government may order TIKTOK to collect data from American users, or videos that Americans watch on the application.Tiktok emphasized that such orders will be rejected.
In Laipid City, the city councilor Salaon said that he proposed a municipal government's ban, and previously saw the federal leader and the governor of South Dakota adopted a similar action.Sarang said on Wednesday (4th), "If you know that there are threats, but not proposed, it is negligent." Salaon is the only member of the voting to support the ban.He is likely to participate in the city's mayor's campaign in June.
Laura Amsterram, a city councilor who has announced the candidate for the mayor, is one of the people who oppose the ban.She received an analysis from network security researchers from Internet governance projects.The project belongs to the School of Public Policy of Georgia Institute of Technology.The organization claims to be independent.The report concluded that Tiktok did not constitute a serious security threat.Other researchers came to the opposite conclusion.
Amsterland said: "I don't like the Chinese government very much, but I think (we treat Tiktok) are media McCarthy's behavior, and it is not wise to be involved in it."
