WASHINGTON, March 30 — US Republican Senator Rand Paul yesterday blocked a bid to fast-track a ban of popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, which more than 150 million...
WASHINGTON, March 30 — US Republican Senator Rand Paul yesterday blocked a bid to fast-track a ban of popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, which more than 150 million Americans use, citing concerns about free speech and uneven treatment of social media companies.
“If Republicans want to continuously lose elections for a generation they should pass this bill to ban TikTok — a social media app used by 150 million people, primarily young Americans,” Paul said on the Senate floor. “Do we really want to emulate Chinese speech bans?... We’re going to be just like China and ban speech we’re afraid of?”
TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew appeared before Congress last week and faced tough questions about national security concerns over the ByteDance-owned app. Earlier this month, the Biden administration demanded TikTok’s Chinese owners divest their stakes or face a US ban. Then President Donald Trump’s attempts in 2020 to ban TikTok were blocked by US courts. TikTok says it has spent more than US$1.5 billion on rigorous data security efforts and rejects spying allegations.
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