Washington Washington. TikTok, which was headed for closure in the US as per the law by the Joe Biden government last week due to national security concerns, has found a savior in the form of Donald Trump. US President-elect Trump assured that TikTok will remain available in the US – though with some conditions. The bottom line is that TikTok may no longer face a ban in the US. The world's richest man Elon Musk is unhappy with this.
Musk initially supported TikTok and was against banning it because it would violate the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. “In my opinion, TikTok should not be banned in the US, even though such a ban may benefit the X platform,” he said in a post on “To do so would be contrary to freedom of speech. It is not what America stands for.”
However, he later clarified his stance, saying that allowing TikTok – a Chinese app – in the US while X is blocked in China is an “unbalanced” situation. “I have been against the TikTok ban for a long time, because it goes against freedom of expression. He said, the current situation in which TikTok is allowed to operate in the US, but X is not allowed to operate in China, is unbalanced. Is.
China, along with several other social media platforms, websites and search engines, banned And the term given to a set of rules that Beijing uses to selectively block websites and content from the Internet within its borders. However China has replaced each platform. For example, Weibo is the country's most popular social media platform, similar to Facebook and X, while Beidou is the answer to Google Search. WeChat is an alternative to WhatsApp and other chat apps.
The shutdown of TikTok was part of a US crackdown on Chinese-owned entities to prevent the Chinese government, which has a 1 percent stake in ByteDance, from accessing user data, influencing users or controlling their devices. . FBI Director Chris Wray has said that TikTok is a national security threat, adding that Chinese companies “could be forced to do whatever the Chinese government wants in terms of sharing information or acting as a tool of the Chinese government.” Is.” Musk could also potentially buy TikTok's US subsidiary as per Trump's requirement. While previous legislation mandated divestiture of ByteDance's app, Trump said 50 percent of the operations must be owned by an American company. The remaining stake will remain owned by ByteDance, he said.
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