TikTok faces restrictions across the country, but South Dakota’s second-largest city voted this week against a ban
TikTok still faces much bigger challenges in Washington. Some officials in the Biden administration want to try to force TikTok’s owner, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., to sell the app to a U.S. company. And a bipartisan group of Congress members have introduced a bill thatThe officials pushing for a forced sale or ban say the Chinese government could order TikTok to collect data on Americans or to influence what videos Americans watch on the app. TikTok says it would refuse such an order.
In Rapid City, Councilman Jason Salamun said he introduced the proposal for the city-government ban after watching federal leaders and the South Dakota governor take similar action. “If you know about a threat, and you don’t bring it forward, it would be negligent,” Mr. Salamun, a potential candidate in the city’s mayoral election in June, said Wednesday. Mr. Salamun was the sole council member who voted in support of the ban.
Some Biden administration officials want to try to force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the app to a U.S. company.Among those opposing the proposed ban was Councilwoman Laura Armstrong, a declared mayoral candidate. She received an analysis from cybersecurity researchers from the Internet Governance Project, which is part of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s public-policy school. The group describes itself as independent.
Ms. Armstrong shared the report with fellow council members, including Ritchie Nordstrom. He said he spent hours researching the topic and reached the same conclusion. “We just kept coming back to: ‘There’s no evidence on this,’ ” Ms. Armstrong said. “I’m not a huge fan of the Chinese government, but to get sucked into what I deem as media McCarthyism is not the right thing.”Copyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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