Can Congress ban TikTok? Legal expert weighs in
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- The House Energy and Commerce Committee is hearing from intelligence officials Thursday about concerns of TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, and its ties to China that raises national security concerns. A bipartisan bill would require TikTok to separate itself from ByteDance or risk being banned from U.S. app stores. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson has more.
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I don’t expect the people from “freedom” world the mighty USA, need to use VPN to visit an app like the “no freedom” China citizens do.
So why claim all these beautiful words or concepts? Like free market or freedom of speech?
USA are now banning electric cars from China too, and local companies can’t buy the batteries made in China, did the batteries spy US too?
Let be honest, USA is the most double standard country, accept it.
I'm more worried about what companies like Google and Facebook are doing with our data.
😂😂😂😂 silly statement
@@4g64spyder Not really. They collaborate with the Feds that can literally ruin ur life. China cant really do much at all.
atleast they are not selling data to CHINA
@@4g64spyder don't be ignorant.
Then you don't know a thing about how the Chinese government works
How about congress start doing their job,by stopping weapons sells without their approval
“Without their approval?” Funny
You're replying to the wrong video...
The fact I'm an American citizen with constitutional rights is enough approval. That I'm an army veteran is a bonus but unnecessary
sounds like something a commy spy would say 😏
Wdym? Its our legal right to have weapons, this tik tok ban is absolutely ridiculous though
Ban a company, but not cigarettes for causing cancer or toxins in our food and water?
This is, unfortunately, the guns vs cars debate all over again.
Yes both are dangerous. But they are not looked at the same way. Cigarettes are already heavily regulated, though, TikTok is not.
@@trunphin
TikTok is regulated in the same way TH-cam, Facebook, and Instagram are. Why not pick on those three?
@@Fakenews438
Great. Just label anything conservatives don't like as "threat to national security," and then the government can take it down.
How convenient!
Great. Just label anything conservatives don't like as "threat to national security," and then the government can take it down.
How convenient!
@@trunphinalso they have things on them saying hey if you use this you might die, and that's your own fault for buying it. Good job explaining this in a different way
They should ban all corn websites, dating websites that promote cheating,ig and others that promote drugs also.
Should they ban christian websites too?
Cheating is a choice, you can’t blame it on the social media. If someone is going to cheat, then they’ll do it either way
@Jayishere192 None. Just don’t ban psychedelic and drug websites like OP suggests.
How about don't participate in the websites?
I'm glad that I'm picking y'all brains with my words.
Ban the tiktok ads on TH-cam
Onlyfans needs to be banned too
Indeed! Here I am making $30 an hour while someone is making millions showing a foot! 😂
😂😂@@shansmith7100
@@shansmith7100lmfao very true
You should move to China.
Yes exactly! These things are a disease to society.
Funniest thing is that by banning TikTok for China reasons, the government is becoming more like China lol! Big Brother now gets to choose what you can or cannot use. Today it's TikTok, tomorrow what will it be?
TikTok is ruining children's attention spans and is brainwashing kids with degenerative content. It absolutely needs to get banned.
I disagree. They are targeting foreign apps compared to native ones. A big brother situation would be getting rid of apps in our own nation that have differing opinions which they are not doing. So they are not controlling our thoughts rather they are afraid of what influence China could have on the youth. Which I would rather not have the most influential app having connections with the Chinese Communist Party.
Hopefully Roblox.
@@Fakenews438 China has never said that it is a completely free country, while the United States has always said that it is very free, but now it has become a joke
@@CaelinCadell😂😂 guns do that
🤣 TICTOK TELLS THE TRUTH THAT'S WHY THEN TURN OFF FACEBOOK AND IG
TikTok shows us many real things happening, such as the Palestinian people being slaughtered, facing genocide, things that mainstream media doesn't want us to know
thats the real reason for ban
All the more reason for the ban
Those kinds of videos are shared on X and Facebook as well. Any other crazy theories?
We’ll said !
@@vvhitevvabbit6479 exactly we have enough resources
The problem lady is that Chevron Deference will allow the president to twist this law to ban whatever they want to ban
They’re right this violates the first amendment
Oh my God I am scared, is America turning into a communist country?! 😭😭😭😭
If they ban TikTok, then ban all the rest of them
Yes! Let's ban all Chinese social media platforms that mine sensitive data from ignorant Americans 👏
What about TH-cam?
@@surj138tik tok literally isn’t chinese😂 you can’t even use google right.
Exactly
@@surj138india banned TIK TOK because its bad
We need to ask meta these same questions
I agree I use TikTok for my bakery business
Meta is American. It’s positive for the American economy. One of the biggest companies in the world. And Meta doesn’t spread anti American propaganda on behalf of our greatest enemy
@@CrazyKeys17 Plenty of American social media that can be used as an alternative
@@tylerclayton6081Any recommendations that aren't Meta owned or X?
@@tylerclayton6081 you really believe that?
Facebook and others trying to suppress competition..
Lack of moderation on any part on any social media platform have ruined it. TH-cam used to be against toxic content now you can be a bigot or torture animals and it’s a-ok
@@TheBiggestMoronYouKnowOn TH-cam though (you mean?) ://
If you ban one ban them all
Especially only fans 🤣
@@melissajean564😂
Yet they are in bed with Facebook..
Facebook isn't chinese
@@Amanitaland doesn't matter, they arent anymore trust worthy. They sell your data, still makes it to China. What was the difference? Oh China had to PAY for this data. It's all money. You gotta wake up.
You mean Bad with Facebook 😅😅
@trunphin It does matter. China has direct power over bytedance so they can make it do whatever they want. But China doesn't control Meta Platforms, Inc.
they should ban Coke, Macdonald and and KFC. those brings far more harm to your regular American. But no, American politicians will be poorer because of it.
They are not affiliated with China.
@@Amanitaland has nothing to do with China
@@trunphin Has everything to do with it. That's why they don't care about the other social media apps.
It's money. Not China. But TikTok is a trash platform anyway. Just like TH-cam, Facebook. It's all trash.
@@trunphin yet you're on TH-cam..... TH-cam is biased when it cones to community guide lines and such features but ire not trash for entertainment
To be fair, China banned all of the American apps a long time ago. It’s only fair we return the favor.
Yes should ban TikTok and everybody missed the point if they sell it to a company that is not tied To a foreign country It's OK find another app that's here in the United States that's all there is to it
Ban twitter as well.
lol what? China has no stake in X, which is the reason TikTok might be banned. Other than your bias against Elon Musk, what real reason do you have to call for a ban of X?
I never use Twitter
Nah, Instagram, Snapchat, Onlyfans, Adult Sites, Tik Tok, and Tinder first
TWITTER DOESNT EXIST
@@russiankodiak6849 yeah, Snapchat needs to go.
China has responded:
"If the United States becomes nervous and anxious whenever it hears the word "China", where will the confidence of a major country lie?
If the United States only allows itself to maintain prosperity and does not allow other countries to develop properly, where will the international justice be?
If the United States insists on monopolizing the high end of the value chain and only allows China to stay at the low end, where will fair competition be?
If the United States always says one thing and does another, where will the credibility of a major country be?
The methods used to suppress China are constantly being renovated, the list of unilateral sanctions is constantly being extended, and the level of incrimination has reached an unimaginable level."
That's just a cop out. Has nothing to do with China. It's banning free speech. If so be, then let us go back to products Made in the USA instead of everything labeled Made in China
funny coming from a country who builds it's buildings out of Styrofoam and spit.
TikTok is a trojan horse from the enemy.
I 100 percent agree!!!!! I've been seeing it for months.
Congress is concerned about foreign misinformation? That's funny! We usually rely upon American news outlets to provide all of the misinformation we can stand!
TikTok needs to go. Does more harm then good. 1st amendment isnt covered with private operators. Thats why youtube, yahoo and google can censor.
People earn more on tik tok
@AbimaelLopez-hz3qq people don't want a real job anymore 😂😂
@@AbimaelLopez-hz3qqpeople need to stop relying on tik tok for $$$
They need to get out and go to a real job like the rest of us 😂😂😂
start with MSNBC and 'The View'
The View should of been gone a long time ago...
you can add all mainstream news to that.
Why are we trying to save things that destroy society 😂😂😂 social media, artificial intelligence .....so dumb
Well what are you watching right now? THAT'S why.
@@harmonyjones8035You Tube is my news source, never listen to MSM pushing a narrative.
'Why are we trying to save things that destroy society...social media...AI..
Social media is merely a reflection of a culture in decline while AI is nothing more than another high tech gimmick to keep the semiconductor and Big Tech profitable and dominant.
TH-cam isn't controlled by a hostile government.
bro doesn't realize he's using social media to comment!
Ban cigarettes, corn syrup and alcohol first.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The issue is that tiktok is controlled by a hostile foreign power.
You must be china
Banned alcohol once. Had a whole constitutional amendment about it.
None of those belong to the CCP
If it’s a security threat for our country, by all means go for it. No one likes to be frisked at the airport, but if it’s going to keep us safe, go for it. And yes I agree this would have to apply to all companies (even domestic ones)… companies should have no right to invade our privacy or collect our data.
Google will prob remove this comment 😂
@@B86432 lol 😂
I think you missed the point, it’s not about data privacy, but about data being governed by China. A huge difference. None of the other platforms give access to our private data to China. If TikTok severs the Chinese connection, they will be treated equally!
You don't have to give them sensitive data
You have no privacy if you’re using the internet or a cellphone nothing you do is private ever every bit of data is monitored and vetted constantly.
Do it! The things that tiktok have taught kids horrible things. Plz it's the biggest cringe worthy thing on the internet.
he said the kids will use a VPN
Because the us can't make money off of it in taxes
Most stuff sold in Walmart are made in China. Can we say it has "connections" to China? Nike is made in China. Can we call it a chinese connection too? Our government can't protect our borders, so now can it even attempt to "protect" us on the internet lmao Just my 2 cents 😅🤔
Finally🎉 they should all ban social media.🎉
Your using social media with this comment. TH-cam is social media
Clark Kent You don't know what you're talking about, do you?
Clark, what are you doing on here then?
Ban it!
In that logic. I think China should ban Tesla and iPhones in China, cause they got cameras everywhere and sending data to the CIA/FBI. The whole world should just disconnect.
Congress is still trying to ban TikTok??? 🤣🤣🤣
Not trying anymore if they passed it. (Which they have.)
Ban it! Ban them all!
PLS BAN IT
it's not gonna haaaaapppen
And onlyfans
I’m good with banning tik tok. Probably the rest of social media can go too
Ban YT shorts and Instagram reels next then it’s all the same dang thing.
Its not the content format, its the owning entity.
@@rpscorp9457so what if China owns it? What is the actual verifiable threat?
@@rpscorp9457Facebook and Google are doing worse with our data tho
@@Michael-pi8ps They can influence elections by, say, promoting content related to Biden and suppressing all content related to Trump. China is doing that already in many countries - the most pro-China candidate gets the most exposure on social media. That's just 1 threat, you want to know more?
@@Michael-pi8psWhat is the threat of a foreign adversary having access to almost every cellular device in the country?
It’s not data leak that they concern. It’s uncontrolled public opinion the us is worrying about.
Funny. If that were the case, then you'd expect X or Facebook to face the same ban bill. Got any other crazy theories?
Key word being uncontrolled, these mfs tryna control us! I feel like America is becoming a communist country (help us Jesus) 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😭😭😭😭
The U.S. government is slowly trying to usher in the NWO but f*ck that! It’s not happening not on God’s time!
I want to be shipped out of this country now 😭😭😭😭
There has to be a balance between "free expression" and National Security. If someone is exploiting free speech through a platform as China is doing with TikTok, which is affecting National Security, National Security should take priority, then TikTok. Free Speech is not being banned, just one platform used for that speech. It's likened to turning off a microphone, just get another... The conversation may take place elsewhere without ban.
BAN IT! I am sure another company can make a similar app.
CBS News 2/12/24. “Biden reelection campaign joins TikTok - though Biden banned its use on government devices”
Ever wonder why China bought the voting systems 1 month before the 2020 elections?
Gov devices are monitored, but Ivanka had a private server , but but but Her Emails!!
@@wulfmadienDid you check Hunter’s laptop? 🤣
@@michellepark8728Didn’t trumps son get a $2billion donation from the very country that funded 9/11😂😂😂 If you want to prosecute hunter go for it but at least accept that your glorious leader’sson is the same
@@awesome4349 All Chinese knew what Hunter did in China…🤣🤣🤣
All the oldies getting excited about controlling younger people 😂
I’ll tolerate TikTok but please ban OnlyFans!
Tictok already violates everyone’s 1st amendment rights
how? you have a choice to use it, I don't use it, and even if it does somehow violate your first amendment why would you want another bill disregarding the first amendment?
TikTok is pretty toxic and drama filled.
Truth
Twitter/X is worse imo
Social media is the most unsocial activity a person can do. You’re literally looking at a screen and not making eye contact with another human being.
On the one hand it lets you connect with people you could never otherwise meet. On the other hand, I am shocked when anyone replies to someone else with any amount of civility. 9/10 times you're right
I've met people I would've never met if it weren't for tiktok
@@typical_republican654 Which is really cool! Social media can be used for good
Maybe, but there's no denying that nearly everyone is disingenuous online. You're not meeting someone new. You're meeting a facade who's sole intention is to manipulate you. Nearly everyone online is trying to convince people they are something that they are not, and easily avoid accountability, something that's much harder to do in real life.@@saramae9878
So wtf are you doing on here then? ☠️
But if you use a vpn you can still use it
I’m glad it’s going to be banned. That app is just full of brain rot 😂
It's not the best app considering how it uses users' information, although, banning it kind of fringes on freedom of speech. Either way, there will always be an alternative as we have seen with many social media sites before.
As soon as I heard about this, I totally understood how and why they were doing this, and honestly was kinda confused with how many people were unquestioningly calling it unconstitutional. There is a case for freedom of speech, but it isn’t at all certain to work, especially when possibly at odds with national security, which is definitely something that has the potential to supersede freedom of speech.
It is not banning speech it is creating US oversight, to move the data traffic to the US. We are creating nationalized data routing to secure the western powers cyber infrastructure in many different ways, this is one, a security risk because lots of people told not to use it because of possible espionage use it anyway because of its popularity.
Probably not. Brandon embraces & emboldens Tik Tok into The White House
he’s banned it from government phones but i’m sure research is hard for right wingers
Mr Greenblatt wants to silence TikTok because he wants to silence dissent on Israeli war crimes.
won't happen and WILL NOT STAND!
#SaveTikTok
@@zaquarviousgaffney367hey 2 year old.
Ban it
Stop putting old people in office.
they probably can't legally. But I wish it was gone. It is such a waste of human time.
Congress has the power to regulate 'interstate commerce,' and since the bill only deals with entities' selling or transfer of American's personal information to overseas adversaries, it doesn't run afoul of the Constitution. The 1st Amendment says you have the right to say something and the government can't stop you. Whatever users currently say on TikTok, there is no legal burden on them saying those things anywhere else. I still have a feeling that this is gonna die on the floor, 'cause that's how these things usually go, but at the very least a new company (or at least one that is no longer HQ'd in China) will be hopefully subject to US law or the laws of another state that is not our adversary.
@HobbitJack1 I agree. The post presented this as "ban tiktok". That's what I referred to. How would the US enforce someone accessing a software package. Can't be done. Granted, I would love nothing more than for some "less" social media for the teens I work with in juvenile court.
@@HobbitJack1then that would bring into question the freedom of assembly.
@@Michael-pi8ps The legal question which would come before a court would basically be 'Does banning (though I find it far more likely that the platform be divested instead) a social media platform *for being involved with adversarial foreign powers* place an undue burden on the ability of citizens to associate with whom they choose?'
I find it unlikely that a court would rule that way, due to the requirements that a platform be owned and operated by a company under the influence or operating primarily from an adversarial power. The state would be able to argue that users would be able to freely associate with the same people on other platforms, and I don't see how (again, with the condition that the platform is owned by adversarial powers) that places an undue burden on the ability to associate.
Of course, I'm not a lawyer and this is nothing but conjecture and my understanding of the Constitution's interpretation of the rights (the court has indeed ruled Freedom of Association to be a necessary part of the Freedom of Speech) protected from infringement in the 1st Amendment.
I use the undue burden standard, because if I recall correctly that is also the standard applied to the ability of local governments to limit the time and location of peaceful protests to certain areas and times within their jurisdiction.
Israel is calling the shots.
Just do it already, ffs
tik tok has made billions off of" Americans " and they(tiktok) will be hurt, they are a big company making big money and could care less about their (average American) livelihood
tiktok doesn't have the right to freespeech, nor is the bill stopping them from just going to youtube
Ban Titktok yes 🙌🏽
I can get there through a VPN just like how I can get to the dark web.
Also the Government is mad because TikTok doesn't pay their demand$$ . They made them put adds in TikTok . We will just make a new App .
there are so many other problems in this country and they are only worried about an app?
No the government can not ban this company or any other company it’s unconstitutional. People read up on your laws.
It not meant to be a ban but creating US oversight, to move the data traffic to US control or separating friendly traffic from foreign adversaries networks which will take years to construct as much of it is now shared networks. We are creating nationalized data routing to secure the western powers cyber infrastructure in many different ways, this is one, a security risk because lots of people told not to use it because of possible espionage use it anyway because of its popularity.
Tiktok can store all data in AWS US so how can these data being transfer to China when it store in US company cloud
Can they ban it? How damn stupid can U be? It's simply, WILL THEY? How stupid is that question? If CHINA Determines what we can see, we are beyond stupid.
Mfs just distracting us by doing some of the most useless things ever
Red Foreman once said work is work ..Work isn't supposed to be fun! Ain't that the truth
A real job isn't supposed to be fun... a real job, you have to get up early in the morning on time..Tik tok is not a job!! It needs banned for that reason, and also, it's toxic af
I wish. And yes, they can. TikTok is so gay.
Tiktok" Will Not "Be Done Away With in the USA...
Why not ban all social media? Twitter, Tik Tok, Facebook, hell, even ban Pinterest. The world is better off without them.
TH-cam would be gone too. Message boards? Blogs? Chatrooms? Gone too. Look up what counts as social media.
@@BLSoldier00 Goodbye to all of them
Please ban it. Then maybe I'll stop getting ad's every 5 seconds to download it.
IMO, it will never happen!
is Armored Core competitions are banned. than tik tok should definitely be banned... Facts...
ironic 😂😂😂 when china restricts the internet to its constituents. Ban tik tok now.
I'll never download tiktok..🤡🤷🏿♂️😂😂😂
ALL child social media accounts should be directly linked to adult supervision by at least one of the following: father, mother, legal guardian, school ICT officer, school headteacher (not every teacher), or social worker. If not then the social media company should not be allowed a license.
Keep supporting these two cult parties and see how far they'll take things.
The young people will vote all these people out
Yes please ban tiktok for good
Communjst
Their own country don't allow most of the crap on TikTok to their own citizens. Wonder why? Dumbing down of US 😢
Somone would just replace them
yep tik tok make so much off of the Americans and the Americans want to keep paying them
Does the Commerce Committee ever consider the blowback from such a ban? Example, China bans iphone sales in retaliation citing similar concern. And what will this do to our ballooning trade deficit? I'm more concerned with what my gov can do with my private data than a foreign entity, which is nothing.
We already said Huawei cant sell devices in the US, and nothing happened in retalliation.
The problem isn't user data, it is the fact that China could use TikTok to spread pro-China propaganda. China outright banning iPhone sales would be a massive escalation. China is in a rough economic state as of recently, they are in no shape to do anything as drastic. If anything, banning TikTok would just level the playing field. US social media apps are either banned or heavily restricted in China, is it really fair that Chinese apps are allowed in the US?
@@trunphin Sep 7, 2023 - China has banned the use of iPhones for central government officials. Shares in aapl tumbled on the news.
And what's wrong with pro-china propaganda? We come to here to watch pro-us propaganda. It's called freedom, freedom to hear from anyone we like, freedom to then decide on matters after hearing from all sources we want. And it doesn't matter how many things are banned in china. Should we start banning everything like china but still claiming to be the Land of the Free?
@@JeffPar50 My response to you keeps getting deleted, so i'll keep it short. If one day someone deems your speech propaganda, should you be banned from speaking?
Congress ban guns and leave TickTock alone.
Tbh it was better getting personal with people in person than online
TikTok in US,but FB not in China.
But the Supreme Court case, Citizens United, stated that corporations do in fact have 1st Amendment rights.
The 1st Amendment protects everyone within the United States. A person of Chinese citizenship could walk down the street singing the praises of China and wishing for the downfall of America; and it would be legal.
The Communist Party in China does not have a 1st Amendment Right. And maybe since we’re on the brink of war with them, we should not let them have access to most cellular devices in the country.
Watch them come for more social next
Ban Facebook too!!
Banned it
They should ban all short form content tbh
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean they should ban it
@@typical_republican654 Lets be real tho. Short form content has no positive upsides. The quality of content has been lowered and our Attention spans lowered. Only positive things are Capitalistic opportunities.
@@typical_republican654 ACTUALLY psychologically its doing a lot of damage
they right short content should just disappear
@moon47everyday It's better than staring at a 1 hour long video, I've seen tiktok videos get more important news on them then all the major news networks. The U.S. is meant to be a free country, if people wanna watch short form content they are free to do so
Vote for biden you get this vote for trump your fine they ban trump from tick tock
Chinese are everywhere in 🇺🇸.
So what is the problem?😛
Ban it it’s full of begs
💯💯💯💯
Shut down the TikTok it will shut down the comment propaganda and caught is stable
We recognize the security aspect of the bill, and we also observe the US government's disapproval of 150 million Americans accessing "Free Palestinian" videos.
BAN IT !!
Nah
Nah I like freedom. Sorry u wanna be like North Korea. Kinda sad really I guess big brother knows best right?
no way
@@mcddewitt Bro TikTok is headquartered in one of the most restrictive countries on earth. China is near rock bottom in the press-freedom rankings. Almost no US social media app is allowed in China. They should have absolutely no intrinsic right to the US market. TikTok is a business, no one's freedoms are being taken away. It is honestly unbelievable that TikTok has not been banned sooner.
@@JeffPar50and you want to turn the US into that so amazing. So why do you hate free markets? My right to choose what apps I want to use without govt intervention is a right. I frankly dont care what China does but am concerned with lawmakers in the public thirst for the same level of control here. Since they ban guns you wanna do that too? What about free speech? Why cant adults choose what they want to use? I imagine if China banned Iphones then these same Representatives would throw a hissy fit. Our apps our more dangerous for us since they share info with govt and the way the DOJ has been weaponized is scary as hell.