Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed.

johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I know that I heard (on the 538 podcast) that before voting on this, congress was given a security briefing about it, and after that there was wide bipartisan support for the ban (and we all know how rare bipartisan support is these days). It sounds like the security briefing was pretty compelling. If it’s not just theoretical that Chinese gocernment could leverage tiktok to spy on Americans and influence them, and there’s evidence that they are already doing it, I think it makes the case for the ban much stronger. But the information has not been made public.

I’ll also note that they set the ban to not go into effect until after the election.

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