Blackburn: The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make it More Difficult for TikTok to Operate in America
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BLACKBURN: "Well, this is one of the reasons that President Trump had said they ought not be able to operate here, it is why I, along with others, have had amendments to the Defense Authorization Act to remove TikTok from our military members' phones because it is that surveillance tool. Now, as you know, I have moved forward legislation this week, the Kids Online Safety Act, which would make it more difficult for companies like TikTok that are doing data mining, that are surveilling, that are harvesting this data, that are selling this data to operate because it brings transparency and stricter guidelines to which they will have to adhere. So that will make this market less attractive for them and more difficult. Chinese companies that are, as you said, partly owned by the Chinese Communist Party, need to have to obey by the same rules, regulations and compliances that American companies have to abide by."