TikTok's ban and the political implications

In a digital world of social media and the growing of different platforms, TikTok has quickly become the most popular social media platform with its addicting short-form videos and vast global reach. TikTok has had a huge cultural impact in every area as the number of users and different personalities and different motives for creating content around the world. With this, there have become concerns over data privacy and security for its users. As the app is controlled by a Chinese company there are concerns on what data is being given. With this has become the question of banning the application in the United States.

With the debate on TikTok and whether or not it should be banned it challenges the House to make a decision on what is the real vision with the ban. Some say that if the bill is passed it should cause the Chinese company to sell the rights to the app to a United States company to keep the app alive. This is a reminder to users to be careful at how much information and data should be shared on the app.

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