Senators introduced the bipartisan RESTRICT Act that would block technology products from adversarial countries like China and Russia from being available in the U.S.
MRC President and founder Brent Bozell discusses whether Biden should ban TikTok after a House panel advanced a bill giving him the authority to do so.
"Today, everybody’s talking about TikTok and the ability of that platform to be used by the Chinese Communist Party both to take on data, but also potentially as a malign influence and propaganda tool," Warner said. "But before there that, there was Huawei and ZTE, and before that, there was Russia’s Kaspersky Labs. So what we’re trying to deal with here is the risk of insecure information communication technology.
The RESTRICT Act would give the president, through the secretary of commerce, new authorities to mitigate the threats posed by technology products from adversarial nations — the six countries are covered by the bill including China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela. The commerce secretary would have the authority to investigate and potentially ban problematic technology products.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., warned about the ties between TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance and the Chinese Communist Party given the company's access to American users' data. "We appreciate that some members of Congress remain willing to explore options for addressing national security concerns that don’t have the effect of censoring millions of Americans," the TikTok statement continued. "A U.S. ban on TikTok is a ban on the export of American culture and values to the billion-plus people who use our service worldwide."
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