U.S. Considers TikTok Ban as Chinese Threat to Global Internet Freedom Grows
partnership between Chinese tech companies and the Chinese Communist Party is threatening global Internet freedom. But the U.S. has the chance to push back and safeguard online free speech and privacy worldwide. Last Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham that the U.S. is “ ” banning TikTok, a video-sharing social-media platform owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, over its ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Pompeo cited the threat of “Chinese surveillance” to national security, as TikTok user data ...
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