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LOS ANGELES: Soon after Texas university students returned to classes in January, they received a note from the IT department informing them of a new rule: they could no longer access TikTok<\/a>, the popular video app, on university Wi-Fi.
Students had mixed feelings. \"There are legitimate security concerns with the app,\" said Adam Nguyen, a 19-year-old computer science major at the University of Texas at Austin.
\"But people should be able to make their own decisions - this sets a dangerous precedent with the university deciding what sorts of things you can do on the network,\" he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The move comes as part of a swirl of efforts to limit the use of TikTok<\/a> - which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance<\/a> - in the United States, over fears that U.S. user data could be passed on to China's government.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to hold a vote this month on a bill aimed at blocking the use of TikTok in the United States.
\"There are real concerns about data gathering by Chinese companies,\" said Aynne Kokas, a professor of the University of Virginia, and author of the book Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty .
\"But the idea that this problem goes away if you ban TikTok, that's just not true.\"
For three years, TikTok - which has more than 100 million U.S. users - has been seeking to assure Washington that the personal data of U.S. citizens cannot be accessed and its content cannot be manipulated by China's Communist Party or anyone else under Beijing's influence.
TikTok did not respond to a request for comment, but has said in past statements that bans are based on \"unfounded falsehoods about TikTok\".
'DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS'<\/strong>
TikTok has been the most downloaded app in the United States since 2021, according to data from Sensor Tower<\/a>, a data analytics company.
In December last year President Joe Biden<\/a> signed a law banning TikTok from government devices and more than half of U.S. states have passed similar restrictions, with college campuses and even some elementary schools following suit.
Sarah Kreps, director at the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University, said the ban should be seen within the context of a more-than-decades long effort by the United States to limit the spread of Chinese technology.
\"It's part of this larger government effort to slow down Chinese progress and impede their ability to engage in surveillance of Americans,\" she said, pointing to restrictions on imports on hardware by China's tech giant Huawei and telecom equipment maker ZTE going back over a decade.
U.S. courts blocked a move by the Trump administration in 2020 to ban the Chinese messaging app WeChat from Apple and Google's app stores, citing free speech concerns.
Kreps said the concerns over surveillance are credible, pointing to a report from Forbes magazine in December that found ByteDance<\/a> had used the TikTok app<\/a> to track multiple journalists to discover the source of leaks.
Kreps said she understood the need to limit TikTok's access to government devices, but efforts to ban the app more broadly were likely motivated by political and commercial concerns aimed at slowing TikTok's spread, rather than banning it outright, she added.
\"Right now we are looking at a patchwork approach - it's not very effective,\" she said. \"It feels like death by a thousand cuts.\"
Students can easily bypass the bans by using their own data - and government workers are still able to access TikTok from personal devices.
DATA PROTECTION<\/strong>
Kokas of the University of Virginia said the focus on TikTok underscores the U.S. failure to pass comprehensive data protection laws that could address data privacy issues across multiple platforms.
\"It's a destabilizing effort to target an individual company, rather than a serious effort to carefully examine and address the extractive and exploitative U.S. tech environment when it comes to data,\" she said.
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat pushing to ban TikTok from operating in the United States, pointed to Huawei, which has faced bans on its products from the United States and other countries, as an example of a global response to security concerns.
\"When you have ... 140 million Americans' user data and algorithms ultimately, potentially controlled by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), that's a problem,\" Krishnamoorthi said in a phone interview.
The legislation Rep. Krishnamoorthi and Wisconsin's Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher introduced in the House does single out TikTok and Bytedance.
But it also leaves room for restrictions on social media companies housed in countries of \"concern\" which include China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela, according to the bill text.
The bans have ignited a broader debate over internet sovereignty and the trade-offs countries face for seeking to counter China's influence in the technology space.
Daniel Lyons of Boston College Law School said the college campus bans and broader bans on TikTok do raise concerns over free speech, which is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
\"A flat ban on using TikTok at all infringes (on) a lot more speech than necessary to limit the flow of sensitive information to China,\" he said.
A spokesperson for the White House National Security Council did not provide comment on legislation to ban TikTok from operating in the United States and security issues surrounding the app.
POLICYMAKING
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In addition to bills pending in Congress, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has been in talks with TikTok for more than two years on a path forward after ordering ByteDance to divest TikTok in 2020 over concerns that user data could be passed onto the Chinese government.
In 2019, CFIUS forced Chinese gaming company Kunlun to divest from gay dating app Grindr, citing data privacy concerns.
TikTok has floated a plan that would have U.S. tech giant Oracle store data of the app's U.S. users and a U.S. security division oversee data protection and content moderation decisions.
Krishnamoorthi stressed that policymakers must ensure the debate avoids getting steered toward xenophobia or racism. For example, anti-Asian rhetoric ramped up during the coronavirus pandemic, including expressions like \"China virus\" that were frequently used by former President Donald Trump.
\"That being said, we have to be cognizant that the CCP is a real threat,\" he said. \"In light of that, we have to counter those threats.\"
Aubrey Flores, a 20-year-old sophomore at Texas A&M University who enjoys watching TikTok videos, still welcomed the ban.
\"If we have to make sacrifices due to bans or restrictions as consumers for our own safety then we should accept that,\" she said.
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“死亡在一千年削减”:美国TikTok禁止普及
此举正值漩涡的一部分努力限制使用TikTok——由中国公司ByteDance——在美国,由于担心美国用户数据可以传递给中国政府。
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洛杉矶:德克萨斯大学的学生回到类1月后不久,他们收到IT部门通知他们注意的新规则:他们可以不再访问TikTok流行的视频应用,大学wi - fi。
学生有复杂的感情。“有合法与应用安全问题,”亚当Nguyen说,一名19岁的德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校计算机科学专业。
”,但人们应该能够自己做决定,这开创了一个危险的先例大学决定什么类型的网络上的事情你可以做,”他告诉《汤森路透基金会。
此举正值漩涡的一部分努力限制使用TikTok——这是由中国公司ByteDance——在美国,由于担心美国用户数据可以传递给中国政府。
众议院外交事务委员会计划于本月举行投票通过一项法案,旨在阻止TikTok在美国的使用。
“有真正担心中国公司收集的数据,”说Aynne Kokas,维吉尼亚大学的教授,和这本书的作者贩卖数据:中国如何赢得数字主权之争。
“但是,这个问题会消失如果你禁止TikTok,这是不正确的。”
三年,TikTok——有超过1亿美国用户——一直在寻求向美国保证,美国公民无法访问的个人数据和它的内容不能被中国共产党或任何人在北京的影响力。
TikTok没有回应记者的置评请求,但在过去的声明说,禁令是基于“对TikTok毫无根据的谎言”。
“死亡在一千年削减”
TikTok被下载次数最多的软件在美国自2021年以来,数据显示感应塔数据分析公司。
去年12月的总统乔•拜登(Joe Biden)签署了一项法律禁止TikTok政府设备和美国超过半数的州已经通过了类似的限制,与大学校园,甚至一些小学紧随其后。
莎拉》,康奈尔大学的科技政策研究所主任,说,这项禁令应该看到more-than-decades长期努力的上下文中被美国限制中国技术的传播。
“这是政府努力减缓中国的一部分进步和阻碍他们参与监测的美国人的能力,”她说,指着限制进口中国科技巨头华为和硬件上的电信设备制造商中兴通讯可以追溯到十年。
美国法院阻止移动超过政府2020年禁止中国消息传递应用程序从苹果和谷歌的在线商店各种软件,微信援引言论自由问题。
》表示,担忧监测是可信的,指向12月《福布斯》杂志的一份报告发现ByteDance已经使用了TikTok应用跟踪多个记者发现泄漏的来源。
》说她明白需要限制TikTok获得政府的设备,但是禁止应用更广泛的努力可能是出于政治和商业旨在放缓TikTok蔓延的担忧,而不是完全禁止它,她补充道。
“现在我们正在看一个拼接的方法——这不是非常有效,”她说。“感觉就像死亡在一千年削减。”
学生可以很容易地绕过禁止使用自己的数据和政府工作人员仍然能够访问TikTok从个人设备。
数据保护
Kokas弗吉尼亚大学的关注TikTok强调说,美国未能通过全面的数据保护法律可以解决跨多个平台数据隐私问题。
“这是一个不稳定的努力目标个体公司,而不是一个认真的努力,以仔细检查和解决采掘和剥削美国科技环境时的数据,”她说。
众议员Raja Krishnamoorthi,伊利诺斯州民主党推动禁止TikTok操作在美国,指出,华为也面临禁止其产品从美国和其他国家,作为一个全球应对安全问题的例子。
“当你有…1.4亿年美国人的用户数据和算法最终可能由中共控制(中国共产党),这是一个问题,“Krishnamoorthi在电话采访中说。
立法议员Krishnamoorthi和威斯康辛州的共和党众议员麦克·加拉格尔在众议院提出单一TikTok和Bytedance。
但这也使得空间限制社交媒体公司坐落在国家“担忧”,包括中国、伊朗、朝鲜、古巴和委内瑞拉,根据该法案文本。
禁令引发了广泛争论互联网主权和权衡国家面临寻求对抗中国的影响力在技术空间。
波士顿大学法学院的丹尼尔·里昂说,大学校园禁止和广泛禁止TikTok做提高关注言论自由,这是美国宪法受到第一修正案的保护。
“平禁止使用TikTok侵犯(上)更多的演讲比必要限制敏感信息流向中国,”他说。
白宫国家安全委员会发言人没有提供评论立法禁止TikTok操作在美国和周边安全问题的应用。
政策的制定
除了法案在国会悬而未决,美国外国投资委员会(CFIUS)一直在与TikTok前进道路上两年多来在2020年下令ByteDance剥离TikTok之后在担心用户数据可以传递给中国政府。
2019年,CFIUS迫使中国游戏公司昆仑从同性恋交友应用程序Grindr剥离,引用数据隐私问题。
TikTok已提出一项计划,美国科技巨头Oracle应用程序存储数据的美国用户和美国安全部门监督数据保护和内容审核决定。
Krishnamoorthi强调,决策者必须确保避免让驶向排外主义或种族主义的辩论。例如,亚裔言论增加冠状病毒大流行期间,包括“中国病毒”等表达常用的前总统唐纳德·特朗普。
“那就是说,我们必须认识到,中国共产党是一个真正的威胁,”他说。“有鉴于此,我们必须应对这些威胁。”
奥布里弗洛雷斯,德州农工大学20岁的二年级学生喜欢看TikTok视频,仍然欢迎这项禁令。
“如果我们必须做出牺牲由于禁止或限制消费者为了我们自身的安全,那么我们应该接受,”她说。
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