{"id":1906916,"date":"2023-03-29T22:25:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T02:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-hawleys-efforts-to-fast-track-tiktok-ban-blocked-by-sen-paul\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T22:30:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T02:30:39","slug":"sen-hawleys-efforts-to-fast-track-tiktok-ban-blocked-by-sen-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-hawleys-efforts-to-fast-track-tiktok-ban-blocked-by-sen-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Hawley\u2019s Efforts to Fast-Track TikTok Ban Blocked by Sen. Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fsen-hawleys-efforts-to-fast-track-tiktok-ban-blocked-by-sen-paul%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=1906916&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0329\/40971602-0f2d-4011-ab79-f31985974952\/audio.mp3?length=3757293&#038;duration=313\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Efforts from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to ban Chinese-owned TikTok on U.S. soil suffered a setback on March 29 when fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) opposed the move, arguing the ban would limit free speech.<\/p>\n<p>On the Senate floor, Paul objected to Hawley\u2019s request for unanimous consent to fast-track a ban on the viral app in the United States over national security concerns, telling his fellow colleagues he sees the ban as a First Amendment issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore banning TikTok, these censors might want to discover that China\u2019s government already bans TikTok. Hmmm \u2026 do we really want to emulate China\u2019s speech bans?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While TikTok does not operate in China, Douyin, the app\u2019s heavily-censored sister platform run by TikTok\u2019s Chinese parent company ByteDance, is allowed to operate in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave faith that our Americans are smart enough to hear bad ideas and reject those ideas, have faith that our desire for freedom is strong enough to survive a few dance videos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese-owned platform, used by some 150 million Americans, has drawn alarm from experts and a growing number of lawmakers over its data security practices and link to the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to Paul, Hawley said that the First Amendment doesn\u2019t contain the \u201cright to espionage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m astounded to learn that Americans have the right to be spied upon,\u201d he said in a speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo not only does China apparently get the right to spy in the First Amendment, Americans have the inalienable right to be spied upon and have all of their data taken from them. That\u2019s not democracy. That\u2019s an abuse of our laws, the abuse of our economy, the abuse of our people by a foreign government for its purposes,\u201d he said, suggesting that TikTok has been showering money to lobby politicians.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4645331\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) speaks during a Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight on Capitol Hill in Washington on Aug. 3, 2022. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake, it\u2019s Americans who are being bought and sold here by TikTok. They are being sold to the Chinese Communist Party for influence and money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who has been calling for a ban on the app since 2019, said that TikTok\u2019s addictiveness lies in its algorithm owned by ByteDance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care who owns ByteDance. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s owned 100 percent by Americans. ByteDance operates out of China. And this is what we need to understand,\u201d he said on the Senate floor. \u201cThere are no such things as private companies in China. They do not exist under Chinese law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Communist Party goes to ByteDance and says, \u2018We want you to use that algorithm to push these videos on Americans to convince them of whatever,\u2019 they have to do it. They don\u2019t have an option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the Chinese authorities have come out to publicly object to a forced TikTok sale, a move that he said reveals its control over the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can the Chinese government block the sale of a company they don\u2019t control? How can the Chinese company block the sale of a company that\u2019s not theirs?\u201d he said. \u201cThe answer is, because under Chinese law, ByteDance cannot do anything that they\u2019re not allowed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3719767\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 23, 2021. (Drew Angerer\/Pool\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beijing made its position clear on TikTok the same day lawmakers grilled the app\u2019s CEO Shou Zi Chew over TikTok\u2019s data handling policies and ties with the Chinese regime.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, Chew, a former senior executive at ByteDance, repeatedly sidestepped questions about whether the platform is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party and sought to play down ByteDance\u2019s link to China. He also carefully avoided making any criticism of the regime, refusing to say whether Beijing has persecuted Uyghurs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth of the matter is this: there\u2019s this powerful amount of data, a powerful algorithm, entirely controlled at any time they want by the Chinese government operating in our country. And there is no other way to handle this. Not the sale of the company, not the storage of the data,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cIf there was a lesser way to deal with this, I would be for it. But there isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few Democrat lawmakers, such as Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Seth Moulton, both of Massachusetts, expressed similar views to Paul, saying that they want to see a broad policy to address the issue\u2014not just targeting TikTok but other Big Tech firms as well.<\/p>\n<p>But Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said he is \u201call for banning Tiktok\u201d although not the measure proposed by Hawley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one that makes all the sense in the world is a bipartisan one,\u201d he said, pointing to a legislation recently introduced by Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) that would increase the Commerce Department\u2019s power to take action against tech companies from six adversarial foreign nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does the job \u2026 and it\u2019ll pass the test of the courts,\u201d he told NTD, a sister outlet of The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p><em>NTD\u2019s\u00a0Melina Wisecup contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to ban Chinese-owned TikTok on U.S. soil suffered a setback on March 29 when fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) opposed the move, arguing the ban would limit free speech. 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