TikTok issues statement following US Administration's executive order
TikTok issues statement following US Administration's executive order
(Web Desk) - On Thursday, the White House issued an executive order that bans TikTok from doing business with US companies. The order claimed that “the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned by companies in the People’s Republic of China continues to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.”
This is the reason given by the US government, without evidence, that “action must be taken to address the threat posed by one mobile application n particular, TikTok.”
Following the executive order, TikTok issued a public statement in response to the claims made by the US government like “These risks are real” and “This mobile application may also be used for disinformation that benefit the Chinese Communist Party.” Facebook has been heavily scrutinized for letting the same thing happen prior to the 2016 US elections, but here we are.
The whole situation gives us Huawei ban vibes. The US government felt threatened by Huawei, who came out of the gate strong with low-cost 5G solutions. By issuing an order banning the company from doing business with American companies, all Huawei telecom equipment is forbidden to be used by US carriers.
The US government didn’t offer Huawei nor TikTok the opportunity to defend itself, address the security concerns, or due process. The issue at hand is more than just “consumer data privacy”. The Administration seems to have no issue with American companies selling its own customers’ private data in the past. Those were resolved by the FCC by collecting fines.
