{"id":253875,"date":"2023-03-07T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=253875"},"modified":"2023-03-07T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T22:31:09","slug":"us-government-applauds-bill-seeking-tiktok-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/03\/07\/us-government-applauds-bill-seeking-tiktok-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government applauds bill seeking TikTok ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, the White House praised a bill that would permit the US to block TikTok, a Chinese-owned video-sharing app. In a statement, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p>In a rare show of political unity among US lawmakers, Mark Warner, a senior Democratic senator, and John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, backed the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe applaud the bipartisan group of senators, led by Senators Warner and Thune, who today introduced the Restricting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/03\/06\/ukraine-tiktok-suspends-videos-from-russia\/\">Emergence of Security Threats<\/a> that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan bill \u201cwould empower the United States government to prevent certain foreign governments from exploiting technology services\u2026 in a way that poses risks to Americans\u2019 sensitive data and our national security,\u201d Sullivan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate bill and the backing of the White House accelerated the political momentum against TikTok, which is also the target of a separate piece of legislation in the US House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the threat that everyone is talking about is TikTok, and how it could enable surveillance by the Chinese Communist Party, or facilitate the spread of malign influence campaigns in the US,\u201d Senator Warner said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore TikTok, however, it was Huawei and ZTE, which threatened our nation\u2019s telecommunications networks. 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