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Washington DC – Video app Tiktok mobilizes its American users with a warning that the app can be banned in the country.
TikTok has begun to encourage its users to contact their congress members to express resistance to an American ban. © Reutants
“Congress is planning a total ban on Tiktok,” said a message from the popular video sharing platform on Thursday. There was a button on the screen to call the members of the US congress from users’ respective constituencies.
The technical website The information reported that a representative office was so flooded with calls that the staff had no choice but to turn off the phones.
Tictok’s warning was a reference to a bill It is currently being prepared in the House of Representatives.
The document, which was jointly prepared by Democrats and Republicans, would give the Tiktok owner’s prey dance just under six months to refrain from control of the popular app.
Otherwise, Tiktok could be banned from app stores in the United States. The service claims to have 170 million users in the United States.
Some politicians have expressed concern that the app could be abused by Chinese authorities to gather information about users. Governments in several countries, including the United States, have banned the use of tictoc on government phones.
TikTok rejects concern and emphasizes that it does not see itself as a subsidiary of a Chinese company. Bythadance owns 60% of Western investors. The company is based on the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.
Critics oppose that the Chinese founders with a part of 20%have control due to higher voting rights and that bythable has a large headquarters in Beijing.
During his term as president, Donald Trump Tried to enforce the sale of Tictoc’s US operations to US investors by threatening to ban it. The plan failed because the US courts decided that a TikTok ban violated freedom of expression in the US constitution.
