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Elon Musk, against the TikTok ban in the United States: the hidden reason for his support for the Chinese social network

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The advance of United States of America against Tick ​​tock made several characters raise their voices. The first was the Republican candidate for president of the United States, Donald Trumpand now the controversial CEO of X and Tesla has taken over, Elon Musk.

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Through his personal account, the South African tycoon claimed that the new law proposed in the United States that aims to ban TikTok is, in fact, “on censorship and government control”.

But far from being a champion of justice, the tycoon’s main concern lies in the foundations of the proposed law. According to a controversial excerpt, The president of the United States now I would have the absolute power ban any site on the Internet.

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To all this, in the United States The tension of the battle against Tik Tok is expected to grow as the debate in the House of Representatives approaches, which will take place on the morning of March 13, as revealed by the news agency Reuters.

This law forces ByteDance to sell the vertical video application to an American company or, if not, face a total veto.

The conflict with the youth social network began in 2019, when Trump announced he would sell or ban Tiktok during his presidency. With the arrival of Joseph Biden in 2021, the attacks stopped for a certain period; Although the rumors of a possible sale of private data of users from TikTok to the Chinese government.

Now, in an unexpected turn of events, Donald Trump has admitted that he is in favor of not banning TikTok, in what can be seen as a political move to distance himself from his closest Democratic competitor, Joseph Biden.

Former dolphin Trump wants to buy TikTok

The White House is trying to push China to sell the social network. (Photo: AFP)The White House is trying to push China to sell the social network. (Photo: AFP)

Steven Mnuchinthe former U.S. Treasury secretary during Donald Trump’s presidency, said Thursday that he wanted it gather investors to buy TikTokin the midst of the dispute with China following the approval in the House of Representatives of a bill that could prohibit its application.

The short video application is one of the most popular social networks in the world. But the fact that it belongs to the Chinese tech giant ByteDance, supposedly subordinate to the Chinese Communist Party, worries Western powers.
The lower house of Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday that would force TikTok to separate from its parent company in China to avoid the risk of the app being banned in the country.
Donald Trump with former Treasury Secretary during his administration, Steven Mnuchin. Photo: AP.Donald Trump with former Treasury Secretary during his administration, Steven Mnuchin. Photo: AP.

“I think the legislation should be passed and I think it should be sold,” Mnuchin told CNBC, assuring that Tiktok is “a big business and (…) should be owned by American companies.”

The bill still must pass the U.S. Senate, where the outcome is uncertain.
From China, where the video application is not available, authorities accused the United States of acting with the “logic of a criminal” and preventing an “open, fair, equitable and non-discriminatory” environment for foreign companies.
“The United States should respect the principles of market economy and fair competition and stop unfairly repressing foreign enterprises,” Ministry of Commerce spokesman He Yadong said.

For his part, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wang Wenbinhe denounced that the vote “goes against the principles of fair competition and international economic and commercial norms”.

“If the so-called national security reasons can be used to arbitrarily suppress excellent companies from other countries, then there will be no fairness and justice,” Wang said.
“When someone sees something good that another person has and tries to take it for themselves, we are faced with the logic of a criminal,” he said.
However, the US ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, called Beijing’s position “extremely ironic”, which blocks Western social networks such as Facebook and X in its territory and exercises strong censorship on the Internet.
“I find it extremely ironic that representatives of the Chinese government… have criticized the United States for the debate we are currently having over TikTok,” he said.

“They don’t even make TikTok available to 1.4 billion Chinese”he replied.

US lawmakers passed the bill by a vote of 352 to 65, a rare show of unity in a closely divided chamber.
For its part, the White House confirmed that, if it is finally passed, President Joe Biden will sign the law, officially known as the Protecting Americans from Requests Controlled by Foreign Adversaries Act.
It is unclear, however, how the Senate will vote, where some lawmakers are wary of taking drastic measures against an application that has 170 million users in the United States.
TikTok has always denied being under the control of the Communist Party. Its executive chairman, Shou Zi Chew, even urged users to speak out against the vote, and several content creators on TikTok consulted by AFP expressed their opposition to the law.
The application has long been at the center of tensions between China and the United States, which clash over technological, commercial and human rights issues.
European regulators are also concerned and the European Commission has asked TikTok and other platforms such as Facebook, Google and especially when faced with electoral processes.
Also on Thursday, Italy’s competition authority fined TikTok 10 million euros (nearly $11 million) for failing to sufficiently protect minors.

Source: Clarin

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