{"id":1887239,"date":"2023-03-14T23:25:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T03:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-could-make-massive-move-to-stay-in-the-united-states-despite-national-security-concerns\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T23:26:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T03:26:48","slug":"tiktok-could-make-massive-move-to-stay-in-the-united-states-despite-national-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-could-make-massive-move-to-stay-in-the-united-states-despite-national-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Could Make Massive Move To Stay In The United States Despite National Security Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftiktok-could-make-massive-move-to-stay-in-the-united-states-despite-national-security-concerns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1887239&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/tiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a> Could separate from ByteDance <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese<\/a> Technology firm that controls the wildly popular <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> Platform, to alleviate American legislators&#8217; concerns about <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/national-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National security<\/a> Privacy and risk.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Tuesday report, executives are considering selling TikTok to another firm or an initial public offer as a last resort in case American officials reject a national security proposal made by Project Texas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-03-14\/tiktok-considers-divesting-from-bytedance-if-deal-with-us-fails?utm_source=website&#038;utm_medium=share&#038;sref=FXoxhseM#xj4y7vzkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report<\/a> Bloomberg. The Chinese Communist Party authorities would need to approve the divestiture.<\/p>\n<p>This report is being prepared by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. A board of nine cabinet-level officials, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States reviews TikTok. According to reports, representatives from the Justice Department rejected the proposal from the firm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neither a ban of TikTok nor a divestiture of TikTok from ByteDance does anything to address national security concerns about data transfers,&#8221; Brooke Oberwetter, TikTok spokesperson, stated in a statement to Bloomberg that she added that American users are also using TikTok. &#8220;would be held to a significantly higher security standard than any comparable American company&#8221; under Project Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, and Sen. Jerry Moran, R-KS, recently exhorted Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to make TikTok go away. She leads the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. A letter from the legislators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republican-and-democrat-senators-join-forces-in-call-for-tiktok-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Referenced<\/a> The Trump administration had ordered that Beijing Kunlun Company be divested of gay dating site Grindr as well as health care platform PatientsLikeMe.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok is causing renewed controversy amid tensions in wider Sino-American relations. This has been sparked by at most one Chinese surveillance balloon that recently crossed the continental United States. Shou Zi Chew, TikTok CEO, is scheduled to speak. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tiktok-ceo-will-testify-before-congress-as-national-security-privacy-concerns-grow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Testify<\/a> Next week, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senate-unanimously-votes-to-ban-tiktok-on-government-devices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prohibition<\/a> The President Joe Biden issued TikTok on federal devices and other similar actions by multiple state governments. Legislators have now unveiled a variety of bills that would require TikTok to be divested or severely restrict the platform. This social media company is ranked higher than Meta and Twitter in terms of daily usage. Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA and Sen. John Thune, R-SD. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-gets-behind-bipartisan-bill-that-would-allow-u-s-to-ban-tiktok-take-against-other-foreign-threats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unveiled<\/a> The Restricting the Emergence of Security Risks that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act (also abbreviated as the RESTRICT Act) gives the Commerce Department authority over information communications and technology transactions that could pose an undue threat to American security.<\/p>\n<p>Recent news from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tiktok-whistleblower-says-chinese-communist-party-can-access-american-user-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicized<\/a> An ex-TikTok employee claimed that employees, including members from the Chinese Communist Party, could switch between American and Chinese data. &#8220;nothing more than the click of a button.&#8221; In China, workers are said to use proprietary software that was created by engineers to lower foreign scrutiny. &#8220;insert software backdoors,&#8221; Hawley&#8217;s description was based on an unnamed whistleblower account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have seen first-hand China-based engineers flipping over to non-China datasets and creating scheduled tasks to backup, aggregate, and analyze data,&#8221; Hawley was told by the whistleblower. &#8220;TikTok and ByteDance are functionally the same company. They use the same data analysis tools and chat apps, and managers are in constant contact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tiktok-could-make-massive-move-to-stay-in-the-united-states-despite-national-security-concerns\">TikTok Might Make a Big Move to Stay in The United States Despite National Security Concerns<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok could separate from ByteDance, the Chinese technology firm which controls the exceedingly popular social media platform, in an effort to ease American lawmakers\u2019 concerns about national security risks and data privacy. 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