{"id":555,"date":"2024-03-14T07:05:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T07:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/14\/tiktok-ceo-says-ban-would-take-billions-of-dollars-out-of-the-pockets-of-creators\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T07:05:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T07:05:06","slug":"tiktok-ceo-says-ban-would-take-billions-of-dollars-out-of-the-pockets-of-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/14\/tiktok-ceo-says-ban-would-take-billions-of-dollars-out-of-the-pockets-of-creators\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok CEO says ban would ‘take billions of dollars out of the pockets of creators’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The CEO of TikTok has said that a US ban on the platform “would take billions of dollars out of the pockets of creators and small businesses”.<\/p>\n

Shou Zi Chew, who a source said is visiting Washington DC this week, added the company will exercise its legal rights to prevent a ban after a bill passed in the House.<\/p>\n

Representatives overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday to give TikTok’s<\/a><\/strong> Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the US assets of the app, or face a ban.<\/p>\n

The bill passed 352-65 in a bipartisan vote, but it faces a more uncertain path in the Senate where some favour a different approach to regulating foreign-owned apps posing security concerns.<\/p>\n

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President Joe Biden has indicated he will sign the bill<\/a><\/strong> if it passes through both houses.<\/p>\n

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday asked: “Do we want TikTok, as a platform, to be owned by an American company or owned by China?<\/p>\n

“Do we want the data from TikTok – children’s data, adults’ data – to be staying here in America or going to China?”<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has said that he would oppose a ban because it would help rival social media platform Facebook.<\/p>\n

Read more from Sky News:
Ofcom investigates TikTok over parental controls<\/a>
Nepal bans TikTok over claims it disrupts ‘social harmony’<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Trump previously issued, then rescinded, an executive action during his presidency intended to ban TikTok and another popular Chinese app, WeChat.<\/p>\n

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Both the FBI and Federal Communications Commission have warned TikTok owner ByteDance could share user data, such as browsing history, location and biometric identifiers, with China’s authoritarian government.<\/p>\n

TikTok claims it has never done that and would not do so if asked.<\/p>\n

China’s Foreign Ministry has criticised the legislation, arguing “though the US has never found any evidence of TikTok
posing a threat to the US’s national security, it has never stopped going after TikTok”.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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