Recently, a senator from Colorado, United States, named Michael Bennet asked the Cupertino company, as well as Google, to remove the TikTok short video application from their respective stores as the App Store as soon as possible due to offenses against national security.
Senator Bennet, part of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote a statement to the companies Apple and Google last Thursday, according to the New York Times.
The senator’s letter indicates that supporting the application is being subject to “the dictates of the Chinese Communist Party” because According to the senator, “they should not have the power to accumulate data” and in his opinion, even less about the country with up to almost a third of the entire United States.
Senator requests the ban of TikTok
Regarding what the New York Times indicates, the senator thinks giving all this power to the app is irresponsibleso expect Apple and Google to take their part in this matter.
The letter in its entirety is not fully displayed, even on the social networks and official websites of Senator Bennet they do not have any indicator of said letter, at least until now.
On the other hand, media like Colorado Public Radio They have reports mentioning Bennet pointing to Tiktok as a possible weapon by the Chinese Communist Party against the United States. forbes magazine He also asks Bennet why send communications to companies like Apple and Google instead of contributing as much as possible to the respective requests of the Senate and House of Representatives that already seek the ban.
A spokesman for the senator mentioned that the objective of Congress is to seek to solve these technological issues in the long term, as well as Senator Bennet’s own Digital Platforms Commission Act. However, until idealism arrives, companies with the appropriate power should contribute in this case with TikTok, according to the senator.
In 2022, specifically the last month, the Chamber banned staff from using TikTok on their devicesasking, if you have it, to uninstall it as soon as possible from iPhone, iPad or any other Android device.
Finally, the FCC commissioner thinks that banning TikTok in the United States is something that will eventually happen, although it is also difficult to have the authority to be able to keep what happens on social networks on the sidelines.
