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any time soon. a lot of the politicians that try to look cool on tiktok embarras themselves. we can explain the role that tiktok is playing, the national security threat it poses, i mentioned censorship of news, the ability to manipulate the news and ability to track your location, track your key strokes. track what websites you re visiting even when you aren t on the app. the reason fcc commissioner called it digital fentanyl because it is highly addictive and destructive and traced back to china. that s the fundamental issue. when you have a company at the whim of the ccp that s the issue. bill: they get access to your contacts and everything else you ve got there. that s what you need to explain to young people who have grown up with the digital device. quickly on covid, house intel committee report on the origins of covid. we aren t there yet but maybe get there eventually. the committee believes the i.c.
a bill passed in the senate and moving to the house. maybe it comes up in the new congress. it appears that government employees will be banned from using this app. i would say sometime in the year 2023. do you see the government abolishing this app for all users? if so, what do you think the reaction would be when you consider americans age 25 and under close to 2/3 of them are on it. i do think we need a broader tiktok ban. i have introduced a bill that would do that and it is a bipartisan bill. i am joined by my democratic colleague in supporting that. and i think the more our colleagues learn about the lack of transparency surrounding tiktok as well as understand the basic ownership structure. tiktok is owned by bytedance and it is controlled by the chinese
specific intelligence and the risk that are associated with it. senate passed a bill banning tiktok on government devices. the white house is not taking sides on if the president wants to sign that ban into law. more broadly, there are a range of tech applications and products that are not allowed to be used on the white house and other federal government work equipment for security reasons, including tiktok and i ll let congress move forward with their process on that. the white house has engaged with tiktok influencers and created content some of them like the video skit with jen psaki. we asked the white house if they continue to create this content with tiktok influencers reach out and engage with them and have not received a deaf intive yes or no answer. bill: congressman mike gallagher is here.
owned by bytedance controlled by the chinese communist party. we don t want to give that to our primary competitor. it would ban all transactions from any social media company run through the u.s. adversaries including china, russia and iran. i want to ban tiktok for a simple reason. it is a national security threat but a direct threat to our way of life, economics, allowed them to interfere in mid-term elections. what s interesting about all of this is the bipartisanship in this. chairman of the senate intel committee warner agreed that tiktok is a problem. but he says it is not all bad news and he is encouraging the justice department now to instead regulate the app. there are a lot of creative things that happen on tiktok. it is not an all-bad platform but there are huge risks. some folks inside justice say we can find a way to allow that