(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) The White House backed legislation introduced on Tuesday by a
dozen senators to give the administration new powers to ban
Chinese-owned video app TikTok and other foreign-based technologies
if they pose national security threats, trend reports citing reuters .
The endorsement boosts efforts by a number of lawmakers to ban
the popular app, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance and
used by more than 100 million Americans.
The bill would give the Commerce Department the ability impose
restrictions up to and including banning TikTok and other
technologies that pose national security risks, said Democratic
Senator Mark Warner, who chairs the Intelligence Committee. It
would also apply to foreign technologies from China, Russia, North
Korea, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba, he said.
TikTok criticized the measure, saying in a statement that any
'U.S. ban on TikTok is a ban on the export of American culture and
values to the billion-plus people who use our service
worldwide.'
The bill would require Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to
identify and address foreign threats to information and
communications technology products and services. Raimondo's office
declined to comment.
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