China could 'weaponize' TikTok, so another Senator calls for ban - AppleInsider

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Colorado Senator Michael Bennet has asked Apple and Google to instantly prohibition TikTok from the App Store implicit nationalist information concerns.

Bennet, a Democrat connected the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote to Apple and Google connected Thursday, according to the New York Times.

His missive says that nary steadfast that is taxable to "Chinese Communist Party dictates should person the powerfulness to accumulate specified extended information connected the American radical oregon curate contented to astir a 3rd of our population."

Speaking to the New York Times, helium added that helium believes "It's irresponsible for america to marque it disposable the mode we have, and I anticipation that Apple and Google volition instrumentality this arsenic an accidental to pb successful this debate."

The implicit substance of the missive is not yet available, and Senator Bennet's ain societal media and websites marque nary notation of it astatine clip of writing.

However, excerpts person been seen by sources including

">Colorado Public Radio

. Its study quotes Bennet arsenic penning that the Chinese Communist Party could weaponize TikTok against the United States."

Forbes mag reports that Bennet has been asked wherefore helium has written to Apple and Google alternatively than enactment Senate and House colleagues already seeking to prohibition TikTok.

"Congress' work is to contiguous a agelong word solution for oversight of large tech — similar Sen. Bennet's Digital Platform Commission Act — truthful that we aren't addressing this successful an advertisement hoc way," a spokesperson for Senator Bennet responded. "Until that happens, Google and Apple should region TikTok from the App Stores."

In December 2022, the House of Representatives banned unit use of TikTok, and ordered that the app beryllium uninstalled from iPhones, iPads, and Android devices.

Separately, FCC commissioner Brendan Carr has said that helium believes a prohibition connected TikTok successful the United States is inevitable, though the FCC itself has nary authorization to modulate the societal media service.