by MRC President and Founder Brent Bozell is debating whether Biden should ban TikTok after a House panel introduced a bill giving him the power to do so.
Senators will introduce a bipartisan bill this week that would do so Ban TikTok by blocking foreign-owned technology that poses a national security threat.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va. appeared on “Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream,” who questioned the senator following the panel’s upcoming hearing on global threat assessments and threats posed by China.
“I think for a long time the conventional wisdom was that the more you put China in the world order, the more they’re going to change, and that assumption was just wrong,” Warner said.
Warner went on to detail the steps Congress has already taken to limit the presence of Chinese technologies in the US, adding: “This week I have a broad bipartisan bill that I will introduce with my friend John Thune, That’s going to be the Republican leadership, where we’re going to say, regarding foreign technology coming to America, we need to have a systemic approach to make sure we can ban or ban it if we need to.
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New legislation will be introduced in the Senate this week to ban TikTok and other foreign-owned technologies that raise national security concerns. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Bream asked Warner if that includes TikTok, and the senator replied, “That means TikTok is one of the potentials.” TikTok is owned by a China-based parent company called ByteDance, and Warner noted that Chinese companies are obligated under a 2016 law are to follow this Chinese Communist Party.
Explaining that “100 million Americans are on TikTok 90 minutes a day,” Warner said, “They’re taking data from Americans and they’re not keeping it safe. The kind of videos you see would encourage ideological problems.”
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner will introduce bipartisan legislation with Senator John Thune that would result in a potential US ban on TikTok. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for PEN America)
He also noted criticism that the mix of content shown to TikTok users in the US is very different from what is shown to users in China: “When you look at what TikTok is showing the Chinese kids, it’s all spinning When it comes to science and technology, compared to what our kids see, there’s a radical difference.”
Warner and Sen. John Thune, RS.D., are expected to formally introduce their legislation this week. Details of the provisions of the upcoming legislation were not available Sunday, but the bipartisan nature of the proposal and the leadership role the two lawmakers are playing in the Senate could see the bill rushed through this year.
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US lawmakers in both the House and Senate are looking to pass legislation banning TikTok over national security concerns. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Getty Images)
TikTok has resisted efforts to ban the app in the US amid national concerns over its ties to China.
A TikTok spokesman told FOX Business, “We hope Congress will seek solutions to their national security concerns that do not result in the voices of millions of Americans being censored, and we hope politicians with national security concerns will encourage the government to do so.” encourage will complete its national security clearance of TikTok. A US ban on TikTok is a ban on the export of American culture and values to the more than 1 billion people who use our service worldwide.”
Last week, Republicans in the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a bill that would give a boost to the Biden administration new power to ban TikTok and other apps deemed to pose a national security risk. The committee advanced the legislation by a vote of 24 to 16, which ran along party lines. It is unclear when the bill will reach Parliament for a vote.
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Federal agencies are in the process of wiping TikTok from government devices, as required by a provision of December’s $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, which originally passed the Senate when it was passed by Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo. , introduced as a standalone device.
The law required the Biden administration’s Office of Management and Budget to provide guidance to agencies on how to implement the No TikTok on Government Devices Act by February 27, 2023. OMB released its guidance on Feb. 27, giving authorities 30 days to remove or block TikTok and developing limited exceptions for law enforcement or national security interests, as permitted by law.
