The US gives the government 30 days to ban TikTok



The United States of America has given various federal agencies a period of thirty days to decide whether or not to ban TikTok.

The White House has mandated that all federal entities to remove TikTok from all government-issued devices within the next thirty days or face a penalty.

The director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, issued a memo in which she instructed federal agencies to "remove and disallow installations" of a social media application that is owned by the Chinese government and to "prohibit internet traffic" from government devices to the application.

Chris DE Rusha, Chief Information Security Officer for the Federal Government, stated that.

This guidance is part of the continued commitment that the Administration has made to securing our digital infrastructure and preserving the safety and privacy of the American people.

Congress voted in December to prevent government employees from using the app owing to claimed concerns to national security, which TikTok's owner Byte Dance rejects. The deadline was set by House, which voted to restrict federal employees from using the app.

This action was taken after comparable directives were issued by over half of the states in the United States, as well as by the European Commission, Taiwan, and most recently, Canada.


In response to the action, China stated that the United States was abusing state power and straining the meaning of the term "national security" to justify stifling competition from international businesses.


Mao Ning, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated during a routine news briefing that China "firmly opposes those unjust activities."


ACLU Warns Against Banning TikTok

The House Committee on Foreign Affairs is scheduled to vote on a bill on Tuesday that would give Vice President Joe Biden new authority to prohibit the use of the app TikTok by all US residents. More than one hundred million people in the United States make use of the app.


TikTok "allows [China] to control and monitor its users while it gobbles up American data to be exploited for their malicious purposes," according to Representative Michael McCaul, leader of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.


On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a statement stating that it opposes any move to completely ban TikTok.


According to a statement made by an ACLU senior policy counsel named Jenna Leventoff, "Congress must not ban entire platforms and strip Citizens of their fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression."


We have the right to use TikTok and other platforms to communicate our ideas, thoughts, and perspectives with people located all over the country as well as the rest of the world.


Canada Also Bans TikTok

In the meantime, Canada has become the most recent nation to place a ban on the use of TikTok on all devices used by the government. This prohibition will take effect on Tuesday.


According to a statement released by the Canadian government on Monday, the country's chief information officer "decided that it creates an unacceptable level of danger to privacy and security."


TikTok stated that they found this decision to be "strange" due to the fact that it was made "without stating any specific security concern or approaching us with queries."

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