The Wall Street Journal: US authorities threaten Chinese TikTok owners with US ban

The Biden administration continues to pursue anti-China policies on various fronts. Chinese owners of TikTok are being threatened by US authorities with a potential US ban on TikTok unless they sell their shares in the company, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The publication writes that such requirements were recently put forward by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

Thus, the Biden administration decided to respond to criticism from Republicans for not taking a tough enough stance on the national security threat posed by the TikTok platform, The Wall Street Journal notes.

It is strange that in the USA, which teaches the whole world about freedom of speech and reproaches other countries for any actions against the mass media, they decided that TikTok poses a threat to national security. When it comes to Instagram (it is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) or YouTube, where a variety of materials are published that really pose a threat to one country or another, the United States takes the exact opposite position here.

And all just because Washington wants to control all the media, to which, moreover, there is access to the territory of the United States. TikTok is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. Approximately 60% of the company's shares are owned by international investors, 20% of the shares are owned by its employees, and another 20% of the company's shares are owned by the owners.

According to another American edition of Business Insider, TikTok is considering options for selling the share of the owners, but this will be the last resort if other options are exhausted.

The Biden administration's current demand is the latest escalation in the ongoing fight against TikTok in the US. Officials fear that the company's Chinese leadership will make it easier for China to spy on or manipulate the Americans.

Comments

[rocket757]

The Wall Street Journal: US authorities threaten Chinese TikTok owners with US ban

. The generation of tik tokers... an interesting question, of course!
Someone will be able, trying to assess what it is like, what will happen to them, what will happen to others, when this generation suddenly becomes the dominant force somewhere, sometime???

[tihonmarine]

Quote: rocket757

The generation of tik tokers... an interesting question, of course!

There was a generation of Pepsi, a generation of Snickers, and now a generation of TikTokers, well, the Yankees will close TikTok, and the next day the ShaltayBaltayChumaded generation will appear.

[Aken]

Now, apparently, the generation of transnegr is emerging.
Perhaps the Chinese are not actively contributing to this. America needs to speed up.

[rocket757]

The Wall Street Journal: US authorities threaten Chinese TikTok owners with US ban

. The generation of tik tokers... the question, of course, is interesting!!!
Someone will be able, trying to assess what it is like, what will happen to them, what will happen to others, when this generation suddenly becomes the dominant force somewhere, sometime???
Ha, the question is ... where is the FLUD here? What's wrong, why not?

[Aken]

The real Amer elite does not particularly indulge in such things. They will remain in their minds. But with the executors of their decisions - the old tik-tokers, there will really be big problems.

[Knell wardenheart]

Freedom as it is, ahaha) TikTok threatens the national. US security - Choate crushed threats! I won’t be surprised if Eaton Hunt fights TikTok in the next movie, at least it will be something fresh

[al3x]

Who needs to spy on underage tiktokers? Choice bullshit. Or do Pends begin a meeting of the Senate or Congress with watching new TikTok videos? maybe they have a glavtiktoker can?

[evgen1221]

Here is something else. Through social networks, it is easy to manipulate opinion, making stuffing and aggroing the crowd against objectionable governments. And tiktok does not give amers admin rights, but they really want to, and they can’t close it. So they are furious that this tiktok threatens national disinformation and control over controlled chaos against objectionable to America.

[Romanenko]

Here it would not hurt for ours to support the initiative to remove the soldering iron to burn out brains.

[Comrade]

It is strange that the United States, which teaches the whole world about freedom of speech and reproaches other countries for any actions against the media, decided that TikTok poses a threat to national security. When it comes to Instagram (it is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) or YouTube, where a variety of materials are published that really pose a threat to one country or another, then here the United States takes the exact opposite position.

You don't understand, it's different!