{"id":1995405,"date":"2023-08-09T13:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/think-again-rubio-warns-americans-against-tiktok-wants-it-banned\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T17:31:43","slug":"think-again-rubio-warns-americans-against-tiktok-wants-it-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/think-again-rubio-warns-americans-against-tiktok-wants-it-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio urges Americans to reconsider TikTok, calls for ban."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fthink-again-rubio-warns-americans-against-tiktok-wants-it-banned%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=1995405&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--><h2>In his latest step in his fight against the pernicious \u200cinfluence of TikTok, Florida GOP Senator \u2063Marco Rubio called for the banning\u200d of Chinese-controlled TikTok in \u200dan <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/08\/as-tiktok-comes-for-american-businesses-its-past-time-to-ban-it\/\">opinion piece<\/a> published Tuesday.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTikTok\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/think-again-rubio-warns-americans-against-tiktok-wants-it-banned\/\" title=\"Rubio urges Americans to reconsider TikTok, calls for ban.\">public-policy chief blatantly lied<\/a> \u2062under oath when he denied US data is\u200c stored \u2062in China,\u201d Rubio\u200c wrote\u200c in his piece published by The New York Post. \u201cByteDance, TikTok\u2019s China-based parent company, was caught in October using \u200bthe app\u2063 to spy\u2064 on American journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rubio noted that \u200dThe\u2064 New \u2064York Times reported TikTok stores Americans\u2019 private information, which includes driver\u2019s licenses, addresses, and device IDs, in China, where they can\u2063 be accessed by ByteDance employees. He also pointed out that Forbes \u2063revealed the tax information and\u200b Social Security numbers of content creators on TikTok are also stored in \u200cChina.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAlmost a third of the country uses TikTok semi-regularly,\u201d Rubio pointed out. He delineated how TikTok is undercutting American companies by \u2064selling products more cheaply through its app. \u201cWho, for that matter, will even be aware of \u2063American goods \u2064on the market when TikTok\u2019s algorithm begins \u2014 as it surely will \u2014 to\u2063 favor\u200c Chinese sellers?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He referred to the disingenuousness of TikTok\u2019s tactics when they said they were\u2062 \u201ccelebrating\u201d American small business \u200cin May\u2062 when \u2064committing $1 million \u201cto support Black and Brown\u201d entrepreneurs and\u200d funding small \u200dbusinesses suing Montana for\u200b banning the app.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cChina\u2019s \u2064totalitarian regime hates\u200d the\u2064 United States and is bent on displacing us as the world\u2019s greatest power,\u201d\u2064 Rubio wrote.\u200b \u201cIf TikTok users believe their sensitive data are safe \u2064in Beijing\u2019s hands \u2014\u200b that Beijing wouldn\u2019t use those data to influence, coerce, extort or spy on them \u2062in the case of a \u2062geopolitical conflict\u00ad\u00ad \u2014 they need to think again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March, Rubio and Iowa GOP Senator Joni Ernst introduced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/rubio-ernst-introduce-bill-to-deny-federal-funds-to-tiktok-partners\/#:~:text=U.S.%20Senators%20Marco%20Rubio%20(R%2DFL)%20and%20Joni%20Ernst,partnership%2C%20or%20advertisement%20with%20TikTok.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Funds for Enablers of Adversarial Propaganda Act<\/a> to deny federal funds to any individual or \u2062entity if it\u2063 had an agreement, partnership, or advertisement with TikTok.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cChinese-owned TikTok \u2063is a\u200c threat, but some\u200d entities, including our nation\u2019s airports, are still willing\u2062 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-and-ernst-seek-to-punish-tiktoks-business-partners-with-bill\/\" title=\"Rubio and Ernst seek to punish TikTok's business partners with bill\">accept advertising dollars<\/a> from \u200bthe company. They are either naive, greedy, or both. Regardless, they \u200cshouldn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-passes-bill-requiring-national-anthem-to-be-played-before-sporting-events\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Passes Bill Requiring National Anthem To Be Played Before Sporting Events\">receive taxpayer dollars<\/a> if they are going to accept money from or partner with TikTok.\u2062 These companies need to stop enabling Chinese Communist Party propaganda and espionage\u2063 efforts,\u201d Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/rubio-ernst-introduce-bill-to-deny-federal-funds-to-tiktok-partners\/\">stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-j7qwjs\">\n<div id=\"post-body-text\">\n<div class=\"e1nzmkc90 css-15jw47d\">\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMake no mistake \u2013\u2062 TikTok is \u2062an insidious platform weaponized by the Chinese Communist Party\u200c to snoop on Americans and negatively influence our\u200b children. This bill rightfully ensures that American taxpayers aren\u2019t forced to foot the bill for ads \u2062that bolster the CCP\u2019s toxic platform. I\u2019ll always fight to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-state-employee-fakes-pregnancy-for-paid-time-off-again-gets-busted-after-co-worker-sees-womb-fall-off-report\/\" title=\"Georgia State Employee Fakes Pregnancy For Paid Time Off \u2014 Again. Gets Busted After Co-Worker Sees \u2018Womb\u2019 Fall Off: Report\">protect taxpayer dollars<\/a> and our national security,\u201d Ernst added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio has taken another step in his battle against TikTok&#8217;s harmful impact by urging for the prohibition of Chinese-controlled TikTok. In an opinion piece, Rubio accused TikTok&#8217;s public-policy chief of lying about US data storage in China during a recent hearing. Rubio&#8217;s article was published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1995406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}