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🚨 US Senate passes bill forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok within 270 days, extendable 90 days. Biden signs, threatens ban. Trump opposed. Deadline nears Jan, coinciding with inauguration. TikTok vows legal fight for 170M users. China opposes. #TikTokBan 📱 pic.twitter.com/I5mKiPP6OB
— East Asia: Stories Together (EAST) (@EASTogether) April 25, 2024
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Fact check, @TikTokPolicy — ByteDance and TikTok have REPEATEDLY coordinated with the Chinese government in Beijing.⁰⁰In fact, key leaders at your parent company have senior positions within the Chinese Communist Party. ⬇️⁰⁰But that’s just the tip of the iceberg… (🧵THREAD) https://t.co/sLypDxmQIr pic.twitter.com/6L0u7Cn9ei
— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) March 21, 2024
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After you hear all this whining about market access and freedom of speech from the PRC, this graphic is a helpful reminder. pic.twitter.com/NxovYozEuw
— Eric Sayers (@DEricSayers) March 15, 2024
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lets not lose vision for word playing.
— 巴丢草 Bad ї ucao (@badiucao) March 15, 2024
China did not ban TikTok but has two versions of it.
One for domestic censorship，the other for foreign data collecting and propaganda promoting.
US wants Tiktok be a free platform instead of China‘s controlled misinfo op. https://t.co/l6ldTsL1Te
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U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns: "I think it's very ironic. The Chinese Communist Party is hysterical about the U.S. ban on TikTok and is using the X platform to criticize the United States. But they don't empower their citizens to use X, Instagram, Facebook, Google etc https://t.co/vPmBPJPpVE
— Winston Sterzel (@serpentza) March 14, 2024
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China outright bans TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Gmail, Spotify, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, YouTube, Snapchat, Quora, Slack, Netflix, Tumblr, Vimeo, NY Times, Guardian, Washington Post, Bloomberg, HKFP, the BBC, Reuters, TIME, NBC, CBC, ABC. Explain it! pic.twitter.com/GXO5G4uSJN
— Tom Grundy (@tomgrundy) March 14, 2024
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The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the US assets of TikTok or face a ban.
— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) March 13, 2024
The bill passed 352-65, with… pic.twitter.com/kR9qlDRibh
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📍Hey folks—on #TikTok—as an American born in China—I have a few thoughts in this post. First of all, I would NOT ever recommend allowing TikTok to access your contact book 📔 of friends, or let TikTok connect to find your Facebook friends, or add your phone number. TikTok claims… pic.twitter.com/PH7zBXsNXE
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 13, 2024
3) Congresswoman @RepSpanberger knows what’s she’s talking about — she was a former CIA officer. TikTok will always be subject to Chinese data control as long as it is Bytedance owned. https://t.co/EWHCv5cDNU
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 13, 2024
5) Not even using VPN is entirely safe. China wants full control — even traffic via VPNs! pic.twitter.com/gGI9xUSzSw
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 13, 2024
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This needs to be pointed out more: ByteDance is part of the CCP’s military-civil fusion system. It’s possibly the most compelling reason to crack down on ByteDance/ TikTok.
— Jimmy Quinn (@james_t_quinn) March 12, 2024
“ByteDance is not just a tech company; it is a cog in China’s vast military machinery.”… pic.twitter.com/PugybUVGCl
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This bill IS about foreign control— that’s why the definition only applies to social media controlled by a foreign adversary. https://t.co/bPjYg78FXU pic.twitter.com/gLUZDCJ2VR
— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) March 12, 2024
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BREAKING: @ODNIgov new 2024 Threat Assessment says the Chinese government is using TikTok to meddle in US elections.
— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) March 11, 2024
“TikTok accounts run by a PRC propaganda arm reportedly targeted candidates from both political parties during the US midterm election cycle in 2022.” (pg. 12) ⬇️ https://t.co/cvCbEqz6xZ
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The Chinese government banned TikTok in China.
— Jacob Helberg (@jacobhelberg) March 10, 2024
(It also effectively banned Netflix, Google, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub, YouTube & every other U.S. content platform.)
The only reason the CCP is so opposed to a divestiture of TikTok is because it uses it as a political tool. https://t.co/LvyJPeOnpC
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This is why they should ban TikTok 😭😡 pic.twitter.com/arkakbvyrP
— @Imraan_k𓃵 (@Imraan_k_G) March 10, 2024
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The horse is already inside and become the favorite pet of half the population, that’s why it’s getting ugly https://t.co/jU62c63QqC
— Geoff (@gjh250) March 10, 2024
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The TikTok logo as an actual Trojan Horse! 😆 @badiucao with an inventive cartoon appearing in the Australian papers this AM. News of the US Congressional bill to force TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company travels far… pic.twitter.com/afJyNVRc04
— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) March 10, 2024
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TikTok is really scared of the ban this time.
— Marco Castelli (@macastel3) March 8, 2024
Seems seriously coming.
Look at what happens opening the app today (in US) pic.twitter.com/BOc0EaHxWQ
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"This bill is not a ban, and it’s not really about @tiktok_us. It’s a choice.
— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) March 6, 2024
We implore ByteDance to sell Tiktok so that its American users can enjoy their dance videos, their bad lip-synch, everything else that goes with Tiktok." – @CongressmanRaja pic.twitter.com/OV5CLLsDKa
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