TikTok could also be banned in the United States
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The TikTok situation becomes tricky in half the world And it is that the application of short videos with dubbing, humor sketches and many filters is facing blockages in large markets. After being banned in India on June 30, Hong Kong is now the market from which it disappears. But even worse. The United States is also thinking of blocking the application of Chinese origin for security reasons.
This has been made known by the Secretary of State of that country, Mike Pompeo, in a statement to the Fox News news channel.United States It would be studying the possibility of blocking the operation of TikTok in North America for suspecting that the Chinese government would use this application to monitor users and as a means of to send advertisements. At the moment, these statements have not been formalized into a real action, so we will have to be attentive to the next moves by the US government.
What is clear is that the siege is surrounding and closing on the video application. Whether or not it serves as a propaganda tool, all this news and government decisions only tarnish the name of the social network. A tool that has been conquering younger audiences for more than a year and that, in the pandemic and confinement situation, has been the escape route for users of all ages
More problems and few solutions for TikTok
The threat from the United States is not the only one TikTok has received in recent times. Following the aforementioned ban on the Indian market, and together with pressure from the Chinese government itself and its national security laws, the company itself has decided to close its application in Hong KongWhat is not known is if it will be a temporary measure, or if Chinese rules and censorship will be followed to return the application to this market.
According to TechCrunch, the company that owns TikTok, ByteDance, has been trying for some time to separate the social network from its Chinese part Proof of this is that they have a data center beyond Chinese territory to prove their independence from this government.
In any case TikTok is looking for its own solutions. Something that differs from the trend of large US technology companies, which have stopped allowing Hong Kong to review their contentIn the case of the music video social network, they have chosen to stop operating completely. Now it's time to see how they will react to a possible ban in the US. Will Europe join later?
