OPINION_ TikTok: Communist China's Latest Breach of Freedom

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TikTok: Communist China's Latest Breach of Freedom


Erin Elmore, Esq. | Posted: Jul 21, 2020 12:01 AM

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The Chinese owned social media platform TikTok has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide since its 2017 launch. Their catchy 15-20 second viral dance videos have grown tremendously in popularity during the global pandemic, but the threat that TikTok poses to national security is a trend that no one wants to catch on. Other than immediately deleting the app from your phones and computers, here’s what you need to know.

TikTok is owned by the China-based company ByteDance, which was founded in 2012 and is valued at $75 billion. They have an incorporation address in the Cayman Islands, a place known for tax loopholes and confidentiality. The PR push out of Beijing to promote TikTok as innocuous is that the CEO is an American former Disney Executive by the name of Kevin Mayer. Although offering the illusion of security, a Culver City, California based boss does not change the fact that ByteDance is headquartered in Beijing and is likely forced to share its data with the Chinese Communist Party. (Denying such a request would be the death of the company under the totalitarian grasp of Xi Jinping.)

This data sharing is so perilous that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States is “certainly looking at” banning TikTok. Such a restriction is not novel. On July 3, the Indian Government banned TikTok and 58 other apps with Chinese links for compromising users’ privacy and being used as spyware or malware. Additionally, both the U.S. Army and Navy have banned the use of TikTok by its soldiers, calling it a security threat.

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