The White House and a bipartisan group of senators say the bill would allow the U.S. to better confront threats posed by foreign tech. Critics say it could trample on Americans’ First Amendment rights.
from forcing Apple and Google to remove the Chinese app WeChat from their app stores, citing the government’s “modest” evidence about the app’s threat and concerns over violating Americans’ constitutional rights., U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler found that banning WeChat, which at the time had an estimated 19 million users, would “burden substantially more speech than is necessary to serve the government’s significant interest in national security.
U.S. officials have argued that TikTok could share Americans’ data with the Chinese government for espionage purposes or skew its video recommendations toward Communist Party propaganda. TikTok officials have said neither has happened, and the U.S. government has provided no evidence that it has.
The White House lent its support to the proposal, with national security adviser Jake Sullivan saying in a statement that the bill would help “prevent certain foreign governments from exploiting technology services … in a way that poses risks to Americans’ sensitive data and our national security.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee last week passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would grant President Biden the authority to ban TikTok outright. Republicans who supported it said it would help protect Americans against “subversive data collection,” while Democrats argued it should not be rammed through without further debate.
The company has spent $1.5 billion building a restructuring proposal, known as Project Texas, that would carve off TikTok operations in the U.S. into a subsidiary whose leaders would be vetted by the U.S. government. The proposal was offered to CFIUS in August but has yet to be approved, TikTok officials have said.
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