Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr told Breitbart News on Sunday that Congress should pass legislation to ban TikTok in the United States.
The bill, the Protecting Americans from Regulatory Applications by Foreign Adversaries Act, includes: passed it It has bipartisan support through the House Energy and Commerce Committee. It bans TikTok and other applications owned by foreign “adversaries” in the U.S. and requires companies that control such applications to provide all user data to U.S. users upon request. It is mandatory.
Kerr recently wrote an op-ed for Newsmax explain TikTok’s problems go far beyond privacy concerns, as “the average TikTok user is far more likely to be exposed to content favorable to the Chinese Communist Party than users of other major social media” states. He said there were also security risks. In effect, China is indoctrinating American users.
These arguments echo the arguments of Peter Schweitzer’s new book. Blood Money: Why those in power turn a blind eye while China kills Americansclaims that China is using TikTok and other platforms as part of psychological warfare.
“There’s something very unique and different about TikTok,” Kerr said, adding that the Chinese-owned company not only poses “surveillance” risks but also engages in practices that harm Americans, especially young people. He pointed out that it also poses cultural risks in order to persuade people to indulge. Change your behavior or embrace radical ideas.
car spoke Breitbart News Sundayairs Sunday nights from 7 to 10 p.m. ET on SiriusXM Patriot 125.
Kerr, who is known as a champion of free speech, said the issue with TikTok is different because the government is regulating what the company does, not what it posts on the platform.
“If TikTok was just a platform where people could express their opinions and get all kinds of content, that would be a different story,” he says. “But TikTok has been spying on us, and we admitted that we were spying on a U.S. journalist who was writing a negative article about TikTok. [are] In situations where the First Amendment does not require the government to present a continuing national security risk.
He cited Supreme Court precedent supporting federal restrictions on TikTok that would go into effect under the bill unless parent company ByteDance severed all ties with the Chinese Communist Party.
Asked about former President Donald Trump’s opposition to banning TikTok, arguing that doing so would make Facebook stronger, Carr said that regardless of a ban on TikTok, “there’s still an accumulation of power in Silicon Valley, and we “We need to deal with it in the same way.” destiny.
Joel B. Pollack is a senior editor at Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday Sunday nights from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET (4:00 PM to 7:00 PM PT) on Sirius XM Patriot. He is the author of a new biography, Rhoda: “Comrade Cadderly, you are abnormal.”. He is also the author of a recently published e-book. Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 US Presidential Election. He is the recipient of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter @joelpolak.
