Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) signaled stiff opposition on Sunday to efforts to try to revive TikTok in the United States.
Cotton, who has been one of the leading voices against China in Washington over the last decade, released a statement with Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) in response to U.S. tech companies complying with U.S. law to remove TikTok from their app stores.
“We commend Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft for following the law and halting operations with ByteDance and TikTok, and we encourage other companies to do the same,” they wrote. “The law, after all, risks ruinous bankruptcy for any company who violates it. Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date.”
“For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China,” they continued. “Only then will Americans be protected from the grave threat posed to their privacy and security by a communist-controlled TikTok.”
Cotton responded directly to TikTok later on Sunday after the company released a statement saying that it was coming back online because President-elect Donald Trump released a statement saying that he wanted to save the company.
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“Any company that hosts, distributes, services, or otherwise facilitates communist-controlled TikTok could face hundreds of billions of dollars of ruinous liability under the law, not just from DOJ, but also under securities law, shareholder lawsuits, and state AGs,” Cotton said. “Think about it.”
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously last week to uphold the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, Cotton noted that the company had nearly an entire year to be sold up to this point.
“ByteDance and its Chinese Communist masters had nine months to sell TikTok before the Sunday deadline,” he said. “The very fact that Communist China refuses to permit its sale reveals exactly what TikTok is: a communist spy app. The Supreme Court correctly rejected TikTok’s lies and propaganda masquerading as legal arguments.”
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) signaled stiff opposition on Sunday to efforts to try to revive TikTok in the United States.
Cotton, who has been one of the leading voices against China in Washington over the last decade, released a statement with Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) in response to U.S. tech companies complying with U.S. law to remove TikTok from their app stores.
“We commend Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft for following the law and halting operations with ByteDance and TikTok, and we encourage other companies to do the same,” they wrote. “The law, after all, risks ruinous bankruptcy for any company who violates it. Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date.”
“For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China,” they continued. “Only then will Americans be protected from the grave threat posed to their privacy and security by a communist-controlled TikTok.”
Cotton responded directly to TikTok later on Sunday after the company released a statement saying that it was coming back online because President-elect Donald Trump released a statement saying that he wanted to save the company.
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“Any company that hosts, distributes, services, or otherwise facilitates communist-controlled TikTok could face hundreds of billions of dollars of ruinous liability under the law, not just from DOJ, but also under securities law, shareholder lawsuits, and state AGs,” Cotton said. “Think about it.”
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously last week to uphold the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, Cotton noted that the company had nearly an entire year to be sold up to this point.
“ByteDance and its Chinese Communist masters had nine months to sell TikTok before the Sunday deadline,” he said. “The very fact that Communist China refuses to permit its sale reveals exactly what TikTok is: a communist spy app. The Supreme Court correctly rejected TikTok’s lies and propaganda masquerading as legal arguments.”
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