It’s not clear whether the bans are anything more than political grandstanding, given that the number of devices covered in each state is relatively minuscule.
University of Florida has stopped posting to its popular TikTok accounts, including one that offered students a view of campus life.
the Norman Transcript newspaper that they would “not participate in helping the Chinese Communist Party gain access to government information.”But not every local official has been convinced of the danger. In Rapid City, S.D., city council members this month voted down a TikTok ban proposed by a Republican mayoral candidate, saying the bill — which would have covered 300 city-owned devices — was an unsubstantiated distraction from the actual business of running the city.
After researching TikTok, Armstrong said she had found the discussion devoid of actual evidence. Talking about Chinese surveillance schemes felt like “going down the rabbit hole” toward “media McCarthyism,” she said — a reference to the anti-Communist scare campaigns of the 1950s.“My dad’s a former police officer and my husband’s an attorney. The need for evidence has been drilled into my head my whole life,” she said. “Those who don’t study history are bound to repeat it.
“We kept asking people: Give us a scenario in how you use TikTok data to threaten our country,” Mueller said. What he heard most often were cinematic, speculative cases — a U.S. intelligence official might have his TikTok viewing patterns used for blackmail, for instance — or the same kinds of threats that arose from every social media app, and which a single app’s arbitrary ban would not resolve.
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