US Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican and China hawk, stated on Tuesday that he would introduce a invoice to ban the quick video app TikTok in america.TikTok, whose guardian is the Chinese language firm ByteDance, already faces a ban that might cease federal workers from utilizing or downloading TikTok on government-owned gadgets.

“TikTok is China’s backdoor into People’ lives. It threatens our kids’s privateness in addition to their psychological well being,” he stated on Twitter. “Now I’ll introduce laws to ban it nationwide.”

Hawley didn’t say when the invoice can be launched. TikTok stated in a press release that Hawley was taking the fallacious method.

“Senator Hawley’s name for a complete ban of TikTok takes a piecemeal method to nationwide safety and a piecemeal method to broad trade points like information safety, privateness and on-line harms,” stated spokeswoman Brooke Oberwetter.

“We hope that he’ll focus his energies on efforts to handle these points holistically, moderately than pretending that banning a single service would resolve any of the issues he is involved about or make People any safer.”

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