For Variety VIP+ subscribers: TikTok’s fight with U.S. lawmakers hits at a disadvantageous time, and it just might impact the app's future
There are a few things the U.S. government is attempting to accomplish with this high-profile and very public summon. First, it is a message to China that the U.S. will not sit back and willingly allow its national security to be compromised by the Communist Party. Second, it adds to the messaging that lawmakers are not slowing down its pace of regulatory crackdowns on Big Tech giants with outsize influence.
And just like we thought a few years back when President Donald Trump attempted to outright ban the China-based social media app in the country, this new wave of government regulation is very serious. conducted in mid-January, it appeared the government’s actions to regulate TikTok aligns with American voter sentiment. The survey found 55% of U.S.
There’s a lot at stake for TikTok, and that’s because there is potentially a lot at stake for TikTok users and their private information. Though there have been quite a few questionable situations, the most recentwas particularly shocking and showed just how easily user information could be compromised if the company was determined to do so.
Even as public trust in TikTok and parent company ByteDance continues to be called into question; the real question is whether anything will ultimately be done to better regulate the app in the U.S. despite all these efforts from lawmakers. The TikTok debacle is reminiscent of two quite different scenarios we’ve seen in the past. First is the U.S. government’s battle with Chinese tech giant Huawei. It was a long process that really kicked into high gear in 2018, but ultimately the U.S. was successful in
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