Commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, has recently called for an official ban of the widely-used social media platform, TikTok, throughout the U.S. As of this past Wednesday, November 2, 2022, Carr released the following statement regarding his request: “The United States government should ban TikTok rather than come to a national security agreement with the social media app that might allow it to continue operating in the United States,” Carr claimed.
He continued, “Perhaps the deal CFIUS ends up cutting is an amazing, airtight deal, but at this point, I have a very, very difficult time looking at TikTok’s conduct thinking we are going to cut a technical construct that they are not going to find a way around.” This motion follows the previous confirmation that the Chinese government can access all users’ personal information through their popular application. TikTok has also denied cutting off any personal data flow to China, raising a surplus of red flags to representatives of the FCC and the U.S. government.