Drew HarwellMar 7, 2023

New: Senators are taking aim at TikTok, which 100 million people in the U.S. use for free expression, based on speculative "concerns" over how the Chinese government could misuse it:

We want to use “all instruments of American power and American policy to address the Chinese Communist Party challenge,” including “our commitment to liberty"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/07/tiktok-ban-senate-proposal/

New Senate bill would give Commerce a more direct route to ban TikTok

The bill marks the federal government’s latest attempt to resolve a standoff with TikTok, the wildly popular short-video app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.

The Washington Post
Show threadDrew HarwellMar 7, 2023

I'm old enough to remember in 2020 when a federal judge said banning the Chinese app WeChat based on "modest" evidence would "burden substantially more speech than is necessary to serve the government’s significant interest in national security"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/07/tiktok-ban-senate-proposal/

New Senate bill would give Commerce a more direct route to ban TikTok

The bill marks the federal government’s latest attempt to resolve a standoff with TikTok, the wildly popular short-video app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.

The Washington Post
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@drewharwell im old enough to remember pegasus because it was last year
Mar 8, 2023 at 7:07pmWeb