A TikTok ban on US devices would 'undercut core American values of free speech', he argued. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Tuesday he opposes a Republican bill that would give US President Joe Biden the power toThe committee opened debate on Tuesday on the measure that Republican committee chair Michael McCaul sponsored to grant the administration new powers to ban the ByteDance-owned app that is used by more than 100 million Americans. The committee is expected to vote on the measure later on Tuesday.
Representative Gregory Meeks said he strongly opposed the legislation, saying it would “damage our allegiances across the globe, bring more companies into China’s sphere, destroy jobs here in the United States and undercut core American values of free speech and free enterprise”. The US government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States , a powerful national security body, in 2020 unanimously recommended that ByteDance divest TikTok because of fears that user data could be passed onto China’s government.Mr Meeks said Mr McCaul’s Bill is overly broad but said he believes concerns about TikTok are “justified” and offered an alternative that would allow the current negotiations CFIUS and TikTok to address US data concerns to continue.
The American Civil Liberties Union urged Congress not to ban TikTok, saying it would violate the free speech rights of millions of Americans.
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