The White House is seeking a ban on the Chinese app TikTok and other platforms to post and distribute content from countries hostile to the United States, urging the US Congress to pass a relevant bill. This was announced on March 7 by the National Security Adviser to the President of the United States, Jake Sullivan.
Sullivan urged Congress to act quickly on the matter. He explained this by the fact that the bill will serve as a tool for authorities to respond to national security risks, since high-tech products of foreign origin operating in the United States can be used by “certain governments foreigners” for their own purposes. said the presidential adviser.
A bipartisan group of senators is pushing the initiative. Under the said bill, it is possible to empower the Minister of Commerce with expanded powers in relation to technology companies in China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba.
Earlier, US President Joe Biden ordered a ban on the use of TikTok on government devices, and CIA Director William Burns called TikTok a threat to US national security. .
Source: Rossa Primavera
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