Why Is Biden's Administration Slow-Walking the Investigation Into TikTok?
You are probably aware by now that TikTok is a Chinese-owned social media app. The Trump administration actually tried to get the company cut off from American app stores, but was unsuccessful in doing so before the election. Since then, there was supposed to be an investigation into this app; especially amid news that despite telling us that the Chinese government has no access to American users' data; in fact, that data is making its way back to Beijing.
So, why is Biden slow-walking this investigation? Well, could it be that his son does a lot of business in China? Or perhaps China has access to more blackmail material than what was already found on Hunter Biden's laptop? Regardless of why they are doing this, it is unacceptable. This app should be shut down.
Check out this snippet from National Review. The link to the full article is at the bottom:
A group of House Republicans demanded answers about the Biden administration’s slow-walked investigation into Chinese apps like TikTok and WeChat in a letter to Secretary Gina Raimondo, head of the U.S. Department of Commerce, obtained exclusively by National Review.
Those apps, owned by Chinese parent companies, have recently faced heightened scrutiny after a BuzzFeed News report revealed that TikTok owner ByteDance could access U.S. users’ data. That’s significant given ByteDance’s extensively documented ties to the Chinese Communist Party, as well as the fact that it is under the Party’s legal jurisdiction.
The letter’s lead author, Representative Jim Banks — the chairman of the Republican Study Committee — said that it seems as though the Biden administration has fallen asleep at the switch. “The Biden administration should be using every tool at their disposal to protect the data privacy of Americans from the Chinese Communist Party and so far, there has been no evidence to prove that is happening,” he told NR in a statement.
In June of last year, President Biden replaced Trump-era executive orders that would have banned TikTok, the messaging platform WeChat, and digital payment app AliPay from the United States, with a different order that directed the Commerce Department to investigate all entities that might provide Americans’ sensitive data to foreign adversaries. That order followed TikTok’s legal challenges to Trump’s ban order that had temporarily frozen the measure. The new Biden approach instead tasked the Commerce Secretary with completing an investigation by the fall of 2021 — perhaps leading to a future ban of such apps.
But the GOP lawmakers emphasized that, to their knowledge, the Commerce Department has not yet concluded that investigation.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-allegedly-slow-walking-tiktok-investigation-gop-demands-answers/
