Top venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and Palantir advisor Jacob Helberg urge the U.S. Senate to pass the TikTok ban bill, citing national security concerns and comparing the social media platform to a weapon of war.
Top venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and Palantir advisor Jacob Helberg penned an open letter to the U.S. Senate calling on them to pass the so-called TikTok ban bill.
"Would you let North Korea or Iran own a broadcast channel that 67% of teens spend almost two hours a day on?" the two wrote., given that it singles out one company. In an interview with CNBC, Helberg said that the comparison did not apply. Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures and was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Helberg is a senior advisor at Palantir, an artificial intelligence firm that does extensive, a working group first convened in 2023 to combat the influence of the Chinese government and TikTok in the U.S. Hill and Valley is slated to reconvene in May.
But TikTok has seemingly received apparent support from an unexpected source: former President Donald Trump. One week after Trump met withHelberg said that he didn't think Trump was fully opposed to Khosla and his efforts."If you look at his statements, he has expressed very strong concerns about bias and censorship against conservative voices online," Helberg told CNBC."
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