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First US federal state bans TikTok

2023-05-18 09:15:00, Tech CNA

First US federal state bans TikTok

TikTok, highly contested in the US for security reasons, receives the first blow. The federal state of Montana has decided to ban its use in the future to protect citizens from surveillance by the Chinese Communist Party."

The governor of the federal state of Montana has signed a law according to which the popular video platform Tik Tok is finally banned in this state, before the law passed the congress with a Republican majority. The federal state of Montana has decided to stop its use in the future to protect citizens from surveillance by the Chinese Communist Party," Governor Gianforte said.

The new regulation prohibits App stores from offering this application from 2024. Also, TikTok is not allowed to be active as a business in the federal state of Montana. Anyone who provides access to TikTok from now on will be fined $10,000. Penalties will not be given to users, but to providers. A spokesperson for social media TikTok has criticized this decision. That law violates the constitution, Brooke Oberwetter said, but left it open whether the Chinese company-owned platform Byte Dance will file a lawsuit.

Critics of this decision see, among other things, endangering the right to express freedom of opinion. Some see this as a test for the nationwide TikTok ban that many US Congressmen are aiming for. In December Montana banned the use of TikTok on government-owned phones, citing "significant risks" and sensitive data.

Some lawmakers, the FBI and other US authorities are concerned that the video platform owned by the Chinese company ByteDance could be misused by the Chinese government to access the data of US citizens or spread disinformation in favor of Beijing and thus influence public opinion. public. TikTok itself has stated that such a thing has never happened before./ DW





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