Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr detailed the “multilayered restrictions” in Congress’ recent TikTok bill on Fox News Wednesday.
Kerr appeared on “The Ingraham Angle” to talk about Congress’ recent passage of a bill that would force Chinese company ByteDance to sell popular social media app TikTok to allow it to continue operating. Discussed. Fox host Laura Ingraham asked the FCC chief about his response to backlash claiming the bill applies to all social media platforms, but the chief called it a “sensible” bill. I protested. (Related: House passes bill to force Chinese parent company to sell TikTok)
“Every time Congress does something these days that could be weaponized against them, it raises a lot of concern, especially on the right, because we’ve been doing it for a long time. Republicans on the FCC. My job as a president is to sound the alarm on anything that could be used for weaponization. Not only does this bill not give the president that power, it doesn’t solely rely on it. No. There are five tiers of constraints in place here,” Kerr said.
“One, it cannot be used against any individual. The second is that it only applies to organizations controlled by foreign hostile governments: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea. Third, being controlled by a foreign adversary is not enough, and perhaps it should be, but you also need to have separate national security findings. And there are additional processes beyond that. Yes, and the remedy is again divestment, not unilateral bans. So this is a very targeted bill, and it’s smart legislation.”
Ingraham continued to highlight the concerns of Republicans, reflecting on former President Donald Trump’s decision to permanently ban him from Twitter in 2021, but documents released show that the move He has been shown to have colluded with the federal government during the Carr said work on Big Tech is still ongoing, but there is little that can be done until China’s access to app data is eliminated.
“Look, we still have a lot of work to do working with Big Tech. We need to reform Section 230, as President Trump is demanding. We need to end discrimination against conservatives. No. But you can’t do that to an organization that is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party. You see, TikTok has long told us that “U.S. user data does not return to China.” I’m here. After all, leaked materials show that everything is being watched in China. They told us, “Don’t worry, we’re not actually spying on Americans.” They have now admitted that yes, they were spying on Americans. Then they said to the three of us, “Don’t worry, you got us, it’ll be better this time.” We will exclude China from this data. “That was a lie and China still had access,” Carr said.
The bill, passed unanimously by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 7, would give ByteDance an estimated five months to sell the company. President Joe Biden has said he intends to sign the bill into law once it reaches his desk, but some Republicans are wary of the bill.
Former President Donald Trump previously expressed caution about the bill on March 7, saying that if TikTok were removed, companies such as Facebook, owned by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, would He claimed the company had “misbehaved” in 2020, saying it would “double its business.” election.
