By Hemaja Burud
who may subsequently report it to the authorities.
Since years, people have been talking about how TikTok collects data from all over the world and gives it to its Chinese parent firm,
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Brendan Carr, the FCC commissioner, has reiterated his requests for the popular software to be outright forbidden, but this is highly improbable.
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In an interview with Axios, Commissioner Carr expressed his perspective, saying that he didn't think "anything other than a prohibition"
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would be sufficient to shield Americans' data from being collected by Chinese businesses and agencies.
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In a letter sent to Apple and Google in June, he referred to the programme as a "intolerable national security risk"
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and requested that the firms remove it from their app stores after BuzzFeed News disclosed data irregularities suggested by leaked internal correspondence.
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First of all, it would be wildly unpopular. Before you even consider how to do it,
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banning TikTok does not ensure votes, which is disastrous.
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Second, getting a ban is not easy to do. Third, any effective ban would be a difficult
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to use TikTok as a means to expand their own fiefdoms, using "national security" as a blanket excuse.
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More significantly, should ByteDance refuse to comply, it provides the US government with a chain to pull.
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