Why did President Joe Biden, with the overwhelming support of Congress, place a nine-month choke hold on TikTok?
That’s the question to which few know the answer, but could lie in another case of an app that spilled the location of U.S. nuclear silos.
“For the last few years now, we’ve heard two presidents, not just President Biden but also former President Trump, argue that there is a national security issue with TikTok, but the government has never made a public accounting of what that issue is,” CBC Tech Contributor Ian Sherr said onSherr said there have been private meetings with Congress where the case has been made, but the American public has yet to hear any of it.
“Part of what I think is going to be interesting about this lawsuit is that it may force the government to actually be able to explain itself and explain what this danger is, instead of merely gesturing at national security as a reason for doing it,” Sherr said. ByteDance’s lawsuit goes on to explain that this is the first time in history that Congress has singled out a company for a ban. And therefore, bars millions of Americans and others from taking part in this online community.
While evidence of this “national security risk” has been hard to come by, Sherr shared a story about running app Strava, which was really popular among members of the military for a time. The app tracked the user’s runs and allowed competition among friends, but also featured a map of the U.S. that became problematic.“It had a map of the United States where you could see where everyone was running” Sherr explained.
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