Montana approved a law on Friday to ban TikTok from 2024, elected officials of this US state judged that the platform of the Chinese group ByteDance allows Beijing to spy on and manipulate users.
The text, which prohibits mobile application stores (Apple and Google) from distributing TikTok, will be difficult to apply, but it shows that the pressure does not abate in the United States against the platform frequented by 150 million Americans.
“Face the Chinese”
“It’s time to face the Chinese and ban TikTok,” Representative Brandon Ler launched Thursday after an accusation against China, which “wants our data and our intellectual property,” and a dangerous application for “health and safety, especially of the youngest”.
“TikTok allows and promotes dangerous challenges, such as throwing objects at moving vehicles or taking too many drugs,” he added.
TikTok has denied these allegations for years. Heard in March by a congressional congressional committee in Washington, the company’s chief, Shou Chew, exposed the means put in place to store all American user data only in the United States.
“This law is an outrageous violation of the rights of the people of Montana to free speech” and a “dire precedent,” reacted Vanessa Pappas, TikTok’s chief operating officer, after a vote in favor by the Montana Senate. of the ban in early March.
Source: BFM TV
