Another lawmaker from New Jersey said he wasn’t convinced that TikTok’s security plans would work. “I still believe that the Beijing communist government will still control and have the ability to influence what you do,” he said, pushing back on what he said was TikTok’s attempt to portray itself as “a benign company that’s just performing a public service … I don’t buy it.”
Hours before the hearing, China repeatedly said it wouldn’t oppose any forced sale of TikTok, with its Commerce Ministry saying that any sale would involve the export of Chinese technology and must be approved by the Chinese government.
TikTok is already banned on federal government devices, including military devices, and a growing number of states in the US are banning it on state government devices.
Source- Hindustan Times.