The head of TikTok, Shou Zi Chewwill seek to convince the United States Congress that does not prohibit the popular application in the face of fears in Washington that the company has Chinese government ties and affect the National security.
He 40 year old Singaporean will address the mighty House Committee on Commerce and Energy at 14 (GMT) to undergo a interrogation of hours by republicans and democratswho fear that beijing subvert site for to spy or do propaganda.
Chinese company owned bytedance, TikTok is under enormous pressure in Western countries: officials of the governments of United States, United Kingdom and Canadaas well as the European Comissionthey saw each other forced to eliminate the app on your devices.
Meanwhile, the British broadcaster BBC advised his staff on Tuesday to remove TikTok of their phones. While the most serious threat comes from USAwhose government gave an ultimatum so that TikTok cease to be Chinese owned or face an outright ban in the country.
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A prohibition would be an unprecedented act against a media company by Washingtonsince it would deprive 150 million monthly users in the country of an application that became a cultural powerhouseespecially for young people, and in the main source of entertainment after Netflix.
“Let me say this unequivocally: ByteDance is not an agent for China or any other country“, Chew will say before the committee of the Low camerabased on prepared comments posted prior to the hearing.
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“TikTok has never shared or received a request to share user data from USA with the Chinese government. TikTok would also not honor such a request if it ever came,” Chew will add in his opening statement on Thursday.
However, the letters in Washington they seemed to be against chewwith legislation – and even a bill backed by the White House– which paves the way for the app ban.
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“Americans deserve to know to what extent your privacy is compromised and their data manipulated by the relation of TikTokproperty of bytedancewith China“, said Cathy McMorris Rodgerspresident of the Energy and Trade Committee.
“What’s worse, we know that big tech companies like TikTokuse harmful algorithms to exploit children for profit and expose them to dangerous content“added the Republican.
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Users protest in the US Congress so that they do not ban TikTok
A group of TikTok content creators went to the Wednesday United States Capitol for to protest against calls to ban The popular chinese video appamid fears that it represents a security threat national.
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A group of a dozen teenagers, teachers and business owners went to the Congress to raise their voice in opposition to a potential veto and highlighted the benefits of TikTok in their lives and livelihoods.
Source: Ambito
