UC Berkeley Research Scientist Breaks Down the TikTok Ban, the …
1 day ago · In a historic development, Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has become the center of a bipartisan bill to ban the app nationwide in the name of national security. Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the UC Berkeley School of Information and a prominent scholar in the study of state censorship, propaganda, and disinformation in China, pointed to TikTok’s parent company ByteDance as ...
Is TikTok really a danger to the West? - BBC
At the start of TikTok's ascendancy, there were high-profile cases of censorship on the app: a user in the US had her account suspended for discussing Beijing's treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang.
TikTok ban: A timeline of the app's history | AP News
3 days ago · TikTok users in the United States were prevented from watching videos on the popular social media platform just hours before a federal ban was set to take effect. “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S.,” a message in the app said. “Unfortunately that means you can’t use TikTok for now.”
Why is TikTok banned? What's behind the law that shuttered the …
5 days ago · Lawmakers and U.S. officials have sounded the alarm for years about the supposed risks that TikTok's ties to China pose to national security, and Congress moved last year to force TikTok's...
Examining whether a U.S. ban on TikTok would be censorship
Sep 19, 2024 · Is a ban on TikTok in the U.S. censorship? The government says because the app is owned by a Chinese company, there are national security concerns.
A TikTok ban could embolden authoritarian censorship, experts …
Mar 17, 2024 · The proposed TikTok ban working its way through Congress could embolden authoritarian censorship abroad, experts warn, and shatter the United States’ reputation as an international champion of...
Senate passes bill forcing TikTok's parent company to sell or face …
Apr 24, 2024 · The Senate has passed legislation that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers that’s expected to face legal challenges and disrupt the lives of content creators who rely on the short-form video
The Government’s Disturbing Rationale for Banning TikTok
Dec 12, 2024 · Last week, a federal court upheld the extraordinary use of government power against TikTok, the social-media platform that an estimated 170 million Americans use to dance, sing, talk about...
What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open …
Apr 17, 2024 · The government has argued against internet censorship abroad and even funded software that lets people in autocratic states get around online content restrictions. Now that reputation could take...
Free-speech advocates tell Supreme Court US TikTok law …
Dec 27 (Reuters) - A U.S. law against Chinese-owned TikTok evokes the censorship regimes put in place by the United States' authoritarian enemies, free-speech advocates told the Supreme Court...
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